Zhang, Kang
Li, Houshen
Dong, Shasha
Liu, Ying
Wang, Dong
Liu, Haichang
Su, Feng http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8722-9606
Ge, Lijiang
Jiang, Yunliang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shandong Double Tops Program (No. SYL2017YSTD12)
Agricultural Breed Project of Shandong Province (2016)
Article History
Received: 5 December 2018
Accepted: 14 August 2019
First Online: 19 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All sows used in this study were housed in appropriate livestock housing and fed ad libitum. Sows were bought from ZhengDa company (Taian, Shandong, China) and sacrificed by an injection of sodium barbital (5 mg/kg) after anesthesia (subcutaneous injection). All procedures involving animals were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Shandong Agricultural University, also all processes were followed the “Guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals in biomedical research”.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.