Chen, Qiuyue
Wang, Yiya
Liu, Zemin
Guo, Xiaoli
Sun, Yi
Kang, Li
Jiang, Yunliang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31672414, 31272435, 31772588)
Shandong Agricultural Breed Project (2019LZGC019)
Shandong“Double Tops” Program (SYL2017YSTD12)
Article History
Received: 2 November 2019
Accepted: 19 June 2020
First Online: 16 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The animal experiments were carried out in accordance with the protocols of the ‘Guidelines for Experimental Animals’ of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Beijing, China) and all efforts were made to minimize suffering. The animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Ethics Committee of Shandong Agricultural University (Permit Number: 2,007,005). We have obtained the informed consents of a written form from Mr. Xiaoyan Yang who was the owner of the Hy-line brown hens.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.