Yang, Lei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4954-7205
He, Tingting
Xiong, Fengliang
Chen, Xianzhen
Fan, Xinfeng
Jin, Sihua
Geng, Zhaoyu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1898-7459
Funding for this research was provided by:
Open Fund of Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Local Animal Genetic Resources Conservation and Biobreeding (AKLGRCB2017008)
Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (1808085QC61)
Key Science and Technology Program of Anhui Province (1704a07020091)
Article History
Received: 15 October 2019
Accepted: 1 April 2020
First Online: 9 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All the experimental procedures were performed in accordance with Regulations for the Administration of Affairs Concerning Experimental Animals (Ministry of Science and Technology, China, revised in June 2004) and were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Anhui Agricultural University (permit number: SYXK 2016–007). The whole protocols were carried out in accordance with relevant regulations by this committee. All chickens were humanely sacrificed and all efforts were made to relieve the suffering of these birds.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.