About the Authors

Xia Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Liu, James Blackar Mawolo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

James Blackar Mawolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Liu, James Blackar Mawolo

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Xiaohua Du

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

drdugau2019@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Yingjie Zhou

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gansu Endangered Animal Protection Center of State Forestry Administration, Wuwei Town, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Haifang Wang

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Fayang Liu

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Zhiqing He

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gansu Endangered Animal Protection Center of State Forestry Administration, Wuwei Town, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Haqi Astika Marela

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.