About the Authors

Shoulong Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Shoulong Deng, Qian Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Qian Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Shoulong Deng, Qian Wu

Affiliation School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, P.R. China

Kun Yu

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Yunhai Zhang

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, P.R. China

Yuchang Yao

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, P.R. China

Wenting Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Zhuo Deng

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Guoshi Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China

Wu Li

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, P.R. China

Zhengxing Lian

lianzhx@cau.edu.cn

Affiliations Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China, National Key Lab of Agrobiotechnology, Beijing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD ZL. Performed the experiments: SD YZ YY GL KY QW WL ZD. Analyzed the data: SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL WL ZL. Wrote the paper: SD QW.