About the Authors

Changli Wu

Current address: Guangdong Medical College, No. 2, Wenming Donglu, Xiashan District, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xinzheng Guo

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Fang Wang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Xiaoshuang Li

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

X. Cindy Tian

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Center for Regenerative Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Li Li

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Zhenfang Wu

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Shouquan Zhang

sqzhang@scau.edu.cn

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW ZW SZ. Performed the experiments: CW FW XL. Analyzed the data: CW XG FW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW XG LL XL. Wrote the paper: CW XG XCT SZ.