About the Authors

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jinfeng Miao

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Shanshan Wang

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Yuanshu Zhang

zhangyuanshu@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ YZ. Performed the experiments: WZ JM SW. Analyzed the data: WZ JM. Wrote the paper: WZ YZ. Contributed reagents and materials: WZ SW. Contributed the analysis tools: JM.