About the Authors

Jingbo Liu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Daiwen Chen

dwchen@sicau.edu.cn

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Ying Yao

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Bing Yu

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Xiangbing Mao

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Jun He

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Zhiqing Huang

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Ping Zheng

Affiliations Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL DC BY XM. Performed the experiments: JL YY XM JH. Analyzed the data: BY ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ. Wrote the paper: JL DC.