About the Authors

Bo Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Gao, Xiaoqian Gong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Xiaoqian Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Gao, Xiaoqian Gong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China, Cell Biology and Immunology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Shouguo Fang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation College of Agriculture, College of Animal Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, P. R. China

Wenlian Weng

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Huan Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Hongyan Chu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Yingjie Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Chunchun Meng

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Lei Tan

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Cuiping Song

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Xusheng Qiu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Weiwei Liu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Maria Forlenza

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cell Biology and Immunology Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Chan Ding

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China, Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, P. R. China

Ying Liao

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

liaoying@shvri.ac.cn

Affiliation Department of Avian Diseases, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.