About the Authors

Yanghua He

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Ying Yu

yuying@cau.edu.cn (YY); changy@cau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Yuan Zhang

yuying@cau.edu.cn (YY); changy@cau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Jiuzhou Song

Affiliation Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Apratim Mitra

Affiliation Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Yachun Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Dongxiao Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Shengli Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics and Breeding, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY Yuan Zhang. Performed the experiments: YH. Analyzed the data: YH. Wrote the paper: YH YY. Contributed materials: YW Yi Zhang. Contributed analysis tools: JS AM DS SZ.