Yan, Ze
Huang, Hetian
Freebern, Ellen
Santos, Daniel J. A.
Dai, Dongmei
Si, Jingfang
Ma, Chong
Cao, Jie
Guo, Gang
Liu, George E.
Ma, Li
Fang, Lingzhao https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1103-3679
Zhang, Yi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agriculture Research System of China (CARS-37)
Beijing Dairy Industry Innovation Team Fund (BAIC06)
Article History
Received: 19 February 2020
Accepted: 13 July 2020
First Online: 17 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We carried out the entire sample collection procedures in strict accordance with the protocol approved by the Animal Welfare Committee of China Agricultural University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests, except that George E. Liu is a member of the editorial board (Associate Editor) of the BMC Genomics journal.