Zhang, Xianhao
Ding, Jiafeng
Li, Yuepeng
Song, Qiaozhi
Li, Shuaichen
Hayat, Muhammad Abid
Zhang, Jiantao
Wang, Hongbin
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFD0502200)
Heilongjiang Provincial Funding for National Subjects (GX18B023)
Article History
Received: 2 December 2019
Accepted: 16 March 2020
First Online: 23 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The experiment was conducted in October 2018 at a dairy farm in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. A total of 60 cows participated in the experiment. The dairy farm leader gave verbal consent for the sample collections and can use dairy cows. Because there were no vulnerable populations involved, and no endangered species was used in the experiments. The experimental cows we use are all mature cows during peak lactation. This study was submitted to and approved by Animal Welfare Committee of Northeast Agricultural University (Approval No: SRM-13). The samples were collected and handled in accordance with the good animal practices required by the Animal Ethics Procedures and Guidelines of the People’s Republic of China.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declared no competing conflict of interest.