Chen, Ze-Hui
Xu, Ya-Xi
Xie, Xing-Long
Wang, Dong-Feng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3278-0801
Aguilar-Gómez, Diana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5930-3936
Liu, Guang-Jian https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6306-5870
Li, Xin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-9178
Esmailizadeh, Ali
Rezaei, Vahideh
Kantanen, Juha https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6350-6373
Ammosov, Innokentyi
Nosrati, Maryam
Periasamy, Kathiravan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-5290
Coltman, David W.
Lenstra, Johannes A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1745-7739
Nielsen, Rasmus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-6591
Li, Meng-Hua https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-2506
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31661143014)
Article History
Received: 27 April 2021
Accepted: 27 October 2021
First Online: 18 November 2021
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal work was conducted according to a permit (No. IOZ13015) approved by the Committee for Animal Experiments of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. For domestic sheep, animal sampling was also approved by local authorities where the samples were taken.