About the Authors

Qiang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Liu, Manling Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Manling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Liu, Manling Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Dongxia Hou

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Xuejie Han

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Yong Jin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Lihua Zhao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiaowei Nie

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xin Zhou

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Ting Yun

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Yuhang Zhao

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Xianghua Huang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Daorong Hou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ning Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Zhaoqiang Wu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xueling Li

lixueling@hotmail.com (XL); lirongfeng@njmu.edu.cn (RL)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of the National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Rongfeng Li

lixueling@hotmail.com (XL); lirongfeng@njmu.edu.cn (RL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Xenotransplantation, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL XL. Performed the experiments: QL MZ Dongxia Hou X. Han YJ LZ XN XZ TY YZ X. Huang Daorong Hou NY ZW. Analyzed the data: QL RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL LZ MZ. Wrote the paper: QL RL XL.