About the Authors

Miaomiao Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Miaomiao Wu, Hao Xiao

Affiliations Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hao Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Miaomiao Wu, Hao Xiao

Affiliations Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenkai Ren

Affiliations Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jie Yin

Affiliations Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bie Tan

Affiliation Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China

Gang Liu

Affiliation Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China

Lili Li

Affiliation Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China

Charles Martin Nyachoti

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Xia Xiong

xx@isa.ac.cn

Affiliation Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China

Guoyao Wu

Affiliations Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Healthy Livestock Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Scienses, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United State of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW XX. Performed the experiments: MW HX XX BT JY WR. Analyzed the data: MW XH JY GL LL. Wrote the paper: MW XX WR CMN GW.