Acknowledgement
We would also like to thank the members of the Experimental Teaching Center, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, China for their assistance. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Award number: 2018YFD0501903) and Higher Education "13th Five-Year" Teaching Reform Research Project, Zhejiang University (Grant number: Zdjg08009), China.
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