**Author details**

Jianbin Liu1,2†‡ \*, Xuezhi Ding1†‡ , Yufeng Zeng1†‡ , Xian Guo1†‡ , Xiaoping Sun1,2†‡ and Chao Yuan1,2†‡

\*Address all correspondence to: liujianbin@caas.cn

1 Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China

2 Sheep Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China

† These authors contributed equally to this work

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work
