About the Authors

Hongmei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Wang, Jianming Wu, Xiao Liu

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Jianming Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Wang, Jianming Wu, Xiao Liu

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Xiao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongmei Wang, Jianming Wu, Xiao Liu

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Hongbin He

hongbinhe@yahoo.com (HH); guangpengli@yahoo.com (GL)

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Fangrong Ding

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Hongjun Yang

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Lei Cheng

Affiliation College of Life Science, Inner Mongolia University, Huhehaote, People's Republic of China

Wenhao Liu

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Jifeng Zhong

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Yunping Dai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Guangpeng Li

hongbinhe@yahoo.com (HH); guangpengli@yahoo.com (GL)

Affiliation College of Life Science, Inner Mongolia University, Huhehaote, People's Republic of China

Chengqiang He

Affiliation College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Li Yu

Affiliation Division of Livestock Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Harbin, People's Republic of China

Jianbin Li

Affiliation Dairy Cattle Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH. Performed the experiments: HW JW XL HY FD LC WL CH YD GL LY JL. Analyzed the data: HW JW JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH JZ GL. Wrote the paper: HW HH.