About the Authors

Zhiqiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Zhang, Duo Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Duo Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Zhang, Duo Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Huarong Xu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Ying Xin

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Tingting Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Lixia Ma

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Xin Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Zhilong Chen

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Zhiying Zhang

zhangzhy@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaan'xi, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYZ ZQZ. Performed the experiments: ZQZ DL HRX YX TTZ LXM. Analyzed the data: YX TTZ XW ZLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZQZ ZYZ. Wrote the paper: ZQZ ZYZ.