About the Authors

Xiaoyu Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyu Gao, Hao Liang

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Hao Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoyu Gao, Hao Liang

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Fang Hou

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Zhipeng Zhang

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Mingtu Nuo

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Xudong Guo

nmliudongjun@sina.com (DL); xudguo@163.com (XG)

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Dongjun Liu

nmliudongjun@sina.com (DL); xudguo@163.com (XG)

Affiliation National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL HL X. Gao. Performed the experiments: X. Gao FH ZZ. Analyzed the data: X. Gao MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL X. Guo. Wrote the paper: X. Gao DL.