期刊论文

Wang, SL;Xiao, DF

英文

Veterinary Sciences

2306-7381

2024

11

8

356-

10.3390/vetsci11080356

S.L. and J.M.: Methodology, Investigation, and Writing—Original Draft; Z.T., X.X. and M.T.: Investigation and Data curation; X.M. and X.Y.: Writing—Review and Editing. D.X. and S.W.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Funding acquisition, and Writing—Review and Editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This work was supported by the Hunan Provincial Key R&D Program [2022NK2024], a project of Hunan Science and Technology Specialists Service Rural Revitalization [2022NK4152], an earmarked Fund for China Agriculture Research System (CARS-37), and the National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFD0502005].

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