About the Authors

Chun-Ren Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Ren Wang, Min-Jun Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China

Min-Jun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Ren Wang, Min-Jun Xu

mjxu@yahoo.cn (MJX); xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com (XQZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China

Jing-Hua Fu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Alasdair J. Nisbet

Affiliation Parasitology Division, Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

Qiao-Cheng Chang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China

Dong-Hui Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China

Si-Yang Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China

Feng-Cai Zou

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China

Xing-Quan Zhu

mjxu@yahoo.cn (MJX); xingquanzhu1@hotmail.com (XQZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China, College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQZ MJX CRW. Performed the experiments: MJX CRW JHF. Analyzed the data: MJX JHF CRW XQZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QCC DHZ SYH FCZ. Wrote the paper: MJX XQZ AJN CRW.