Sodium butyrate interrupts the maturation of oocytes and enhances the development of preimplantation embryos

• Meng-Fei Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meng-Fei Yu, Ju-Long Wang

  Roles Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plant Germplasm in Wuling Area of China, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, College of Life Sciences, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0937-5012

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• Ju-Long Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meng-Fei Yu, Ju-Long Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetic, Breeding, and Reproduction for Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, School of Biotechnology, Wuhu Institute of Technology, Wuhu, China

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• Jian-Ming Yi ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: malin@wbgcas.cn (LM); yijm@hzau.edu.ac.cn (JMY)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetic, Breeding, and Reproduction for Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

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• Lin Ma

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: malin@wbgcas.cn (LM); yijm@hzau.edu.ac.cn (JMY)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Moshan, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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