About the Authors

Cai-Rong Yang

Affiliations College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University of China, Harbin, China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanchang Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shu-Tao Qi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lei Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qing-Hua Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jun-Yu Ma

Affiliations College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University of China, Harbin, China, State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi-Bo Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ya-Peng Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Hou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Heide Schatten

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhong-Hua Liu

Affiliation College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University of China, Harbin, China

Qing-Yuan Sun

sunqy@ioz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRY QYS. Performed the experiments: CRY YW QHZ YPW. Analyzed the data: CRY ZHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STQ LC YBL YH JYM ZHL. Wrote the paper: CRY QYS HS.