About the Authors

Lu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Zhou, Yinghua Shi

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Yinghua Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Zhou, Yinghua Shi

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Rui Guo

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Minggen Liang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Xiaoyan Zhu

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Chengzhang Wang

wangcz@henau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ YS. Performed the experiments: LZ RG ML. Analyzed the data: YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ RG. Wrote the paper: LZ CW.