About the Authors
- Mingzhou Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mingzhou Li, Youlin Xia
Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Youlin Xia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mingzhou Li, Youlin Xia
Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yiren Gu
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Kai Zhang
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Qiulei Lang
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Affiliations Department of Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, LC Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Lei Chen
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Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, China
- Jiuqiang Guan
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Zonggang Luo
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Haosi Chen
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Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Yang Li
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Qinghai Li
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Xiang Li
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- An-an Jiang
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Surong Shuai
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Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
- Jinyong Wang
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Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, China
- Qi Zhu
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Affiliation LC Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Xiaochuan Zhou
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Affiliation LC Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Xiaolian Gao
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* E-mail: xgao@uh.edu (XG); xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XL)
Affiliations Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Xuewei Li
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* E-mail: xgao@uh.edu (XG); xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XL)
Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ML XG XL. Performed the experiments: ML YG KZ QL LC JG ZL YL QL XL. Analyzed the data: ML YX HC XG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML AaJ SS JW QZ XZ XL. Wrote the paper: ML XG.