Liu, Cong-Nuan
Xu, Yang-Yang
Cadavid-Restrepo, Angela M.
Lou, Zhong-Zi
Yan, Hong-Bin
Li, Li
Fu, Bao-Quan
Gray, Darren J.
Clements, Archie A.
Barnes, Tamsin S.
Williams, Gail M.
Jia, Wan-Zhong
McManus, Donald P.
Yang, Yu-Rong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Gansu Provincial Key Science and Technology Projects (1203NKDA039)
Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (200903036-07, 201303037)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (30960339, 81460311)
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (APP 1009539)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2017
Accepted: 5 July 2018
First Online: 9 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All dogs involved in the study were treated in strict accordance with good animal practice according to the Animal Ethics Procedures and Guidelines of the People’s Republic of China (Regulations for Administration of Affairs Concerning Experimental Animals, China, 1988), and the institutional procedures and guidelines for animal husbandry issued by the Ethics Committee of Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Approval No. LVRIEC2010–005). All approval documents for the study were obtained from the Animal Ethics Committees of Ningxia Medical University (NMU), China, and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia prior to its commencement.
: Consent to publish was secured from the study participants.
: The authors declared no competing interests exist.