About the Authors

Qingbiao Xu

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Yueming Wu

ymwu@zju.edu.cn (YMW); liujx@zju.edu.cn (JXL)

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Hongyun Liu

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Yingming Xie

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Xinbei Huang

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Jianxin Liu

ymwu@zju.edu.cn (YMW); liujx@zju.edu.cn (JXL)

Affiliation Institute of Dairy Science, College of Animal Sciences, Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QBX YMW JXL. Performed the experiments: QBX YMX XBH. Analyzed the data: QBX YMW HYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QBX YMW HYL. Wrote the paper: QBX. Revised the manuscript: YMW HYL JXL.