About the Authors

Wei Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Shi, Bo Xu

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Bo Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Shi, Bo Xu

bio_xubo@163.com (BX); shengzhizhongxin@126.com (YSL); tong68xianhong@163.com (XHT)

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Li-Min Wu

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Ren-Tao Jin

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Hong-Bing Luan

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Li-Hua Luo

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Qing Zhu

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Lars Johansson

Affiliation Centre for Assisted Reproduction, Codra Hospital, Podgorica, Montenegro

Yu-Sheng Liu

bio_xubo@163.com (BX); shengzhizhongxin@126.com (YSL); tong68xianhong@163.com (XHT)

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Xian-Hong Tong

bio_xubo@163.com (BX); shengzhizhongxin@126.com (YSL); tong68xianhong@163.com (XHT)

Affiliation Center for Reproductive Medicine, Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSL XHT. Performed the experiments: WS BX. Analyzed the data: WS BX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMW RTJ HBL LHL. Wrote the paper: WS BX. Made the article grammatically correct: QZ LJ.