About the Authors

Ming Fang

fangming618@126.com (MF); qzhang@cau.edu.cn (QZ); sundx@cau.edu.cn (DS)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Life Science College, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China

Weixuan Fu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dan Jiang

Affiliation Life Science College, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, China

Qin Zhang

fangming618@126.com (MF); qzhang@cau.edu.cn (QZ); sundx@cau.edu.cn (DS)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dongxiao Sun

fangming618@126.com (MF); qzhang@cau.edu.cn (QZ); sundx@cau.edu.cn (DS)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xiangdong Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jianfeng Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF QZ DS. Performed the experiments: MF WF DJ. Analyzed the data: MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ DS XD JL. Wrote the paper: MF WF QZ.