Chen, Ze-Hui
Xu, Ya-Xi
Xie, Xing-Long
Wang, Dong-Feng http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3278-0801
Aguilar-Gómez, Diana http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5930-3936
Liu, Guang-Jian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6306-5870
Li, Xin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-9178
Esmailizadeh, Ali
Rezaei, Vahideh
Kantanen, Juha http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6350-6373
Ammosov, Innokentyi
Nosrati, Maryam
Periasamy, Kathiravan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-5290
Coltman, David W.
Lenstra, Johannes A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1745-7739
Nielsen, Rasmus http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-6591
Li, Meng-Hua http://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.