About the Authors

Jian Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yunhong Cai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

ZhenBang Ma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, P. R. China

Bo Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Wenxiao Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Jing Cheng

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Nannan Guo

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Zishu Wang

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, P. R. China

Joshua E. Sealy

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Pirbright Institute, Ash Rd, Pirbright, Woking, United Kingdom

Cuiping Song

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China

Xiaojia Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Yongqing Li

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

chunyudady@sina.com

Current address: Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Affiliation Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.