Acknowledgement
This research was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFD0502000), Key Laboratory of Molecular Animal Nutrition of Ministry of Education of China, the Science and Technology Major Project of Anhui Province (No. 201903b06020001), National Innovative Training Program for College Student (No. 201910364046), The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32002199), Anhui province Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2008085MC86), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32002199).
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