期刊论文

Liu, GH;Zhu, XQ

英文

ANIMALS

2076-2615

2025

15

9

1349-

10.3390/ani15091349

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32172887), the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 23JRRA553), the NSFC-Yunnan Joint Fund (Grant No. U2202201), the Research Fund of Shanxi Province for Introduced High-level Leading Talents (Grant No. RFSXIHLT202101), and the Special Research Fund of Shanxi Agricultural University for High-level Talents (Grant No. 2021XG001). The funders had no role in the study design, data analysis, data interpretation, and the writing of this manuscript. All authors had full access to the study data and took responsibility for submitting it for publication.

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