About the Authors

Rui Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Jianping Wu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

wujp@gsagr.ac.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Liping Zhang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Lishan Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Husbandry, Pasture, and Green Agriculture Institute, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

David P. Casper

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Furst-McNess Company, Freeport, IL, United States of America

Ting Jiao

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Grassland Science, Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecosystem, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China

Ting Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Jianfu Wang

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Xia Lang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Husbandry, Pasture, and Green Agriculture Institute, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Shuzhen Song

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Animal Husbandry, Pasture, and Green Agriculture Institute, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Xuyin Gong

Roles Software

Affiliation Animal Husbandry, Pasture, and Green Agriculture Institute, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.