About the Authors

Wan-Fu Yue

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Min Du

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Mei-Jun Zhu

meijun@uwyo.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WY MD MZ. Performed the experiments: WY. Analyzed the data: MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ. Wrote the paper: MZ MD WY.