Liu, Ranran
Xing, Siyuan
Wang, Jie
Zheng, Maiqing
Cui, Huanxian
Crooijmans, Richard P. M. A.
Li, Qinghe
Zhao, Guiping
Wen, Jie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8842-6107
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Technology R&D Program (2015BAD03B03)
Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP-IAS04; ASTIP-IAS-TS-15)
the earmarked fund for the modern agro-industry technology research system (CARS-41)
National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant (2017ywf-zd-2)
Article History
Received: 21 July 2018
Accepted: 25 April 2019
First Online: 22 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All experimental procedures with chickens were performed according to the Guidelines for Experimental Animals established by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Beijing, China). Ethical approval on animal survival was given by the animal ethics committee of the Institute of Animal Sciences (IAS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS, Beijing, China) with the following reference number: IASCAAS-AE-03.
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