About the Authors

Long Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jin, Mingwang Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Mingwang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Long Jin, Mingwang Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Jideng Ma

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Jie Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Chaowei Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Yingkai Liu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Tao Wang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

An-an Jiang

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Lei Chen

Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, China

Jinyong Wang

Affiliation Chongqing Academy of Animal Science, Chongqing, China

Zhongrong Jiang

Affiliation Animal Husbandry Institute of Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Kangding, Sichuan, China

Li Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Surong Shuai

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Ruiqiang Li

Affiliation Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC) and School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Mingzhou Li

mingzhou.li@163.com (ML); xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliations Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC) and School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xuewei Li

mingzhou.li@163.com (ML); xuewei.li@sicau.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation Institute of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ SS ML XL. Performed the experiments: LJ JM JZ CZ YL TW. Analyzed the data: LJ MZ ML XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ LC JW ZJ RL LZ SS ML XL. Wrote the paper: LJ MZ ML XL.