About the Authors

Zebin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zebin Zhang, Changsheng Nie, Yaxiong Jia

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Changsheng Nie

Contributed equally to this work with: Zebin Zhang, Changsheng Nie, Yaxiong Jia

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Yaxiong Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Zebin Zhang, Changsheng Nie, Yaxiong Jia

Affiliation Beijing Municipal General Station of Animal Science, Beijing, 100107, China

Runshen Jiang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Haijian Xia

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Xueze Lv

Affiliation Beijing Municipal General Station of Animal Science, Beijing, 100107, China

Yu Chen

Affiliation Beijing Municipal General Station of Animal Science, Beijing, 100107, China

Junying Li

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Xianyao Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, 271018, China

Zhonghua Ning

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Guiyun Xu

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Jilan Chen

Affiliation Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China

Ning Yang

Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Lujiang Qu

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Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LQ. Performed the experiments: ZZ HX YJ. Analyzed the data: ZZ CN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NY LQ CN RJ HX X. Lv YC JL X. Li ZN GX JC. Wrote the paper: ZZ.