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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll the animal procedures carried out in the present study were in accordance with the guidelines of the Animal Ethics Committee (No. PT-2021012) of Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Competing interestsQingfeng Zhou and Zhuanqiang Yan are employed by Wen's Group Academy, Wen’s Foodstuffs Group Co., Ltd. Qihong Liu is employed by Jiangsu HFQ Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Zhen Kang are employed by Qingdao Vland Biotech Group Co., Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Competing interests Qingfeng Zhou and Zhuanqiang Yan are employed by Wen's Group Academy, Wen’s Foodstuffs Group Co., Ltd. Qihong Liu is employed by Jiangsu HFQ Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Zhen Kang are employed by Qingdao Vland Biotech Group Co., Ltd. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"Funding This work was supported by Key Realm R&D Program of Guangdong Province (2020B0202080004, 2020B0202090004), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2021A1515010521, 2021A1515012401, 2020A1515011575, 2019A1515010913, 2021B1515120006), Special fund for scientific innovation strategy-onstruction of high level Academy of Agriculture Science (XTXM202202, 202110TD, 202122TD, R2020PY-JC001, R2019YJ-YB3010, R2020PY-JG013, R2020QD-048, R2021PY-QY007, XT202207), Science and Technology Plan Projects of Guangdong Province (2021B1212050021), Science and technology project of Heyuan, Yunfu and Guangzhou (2021008, 2021020604, 2021020607, 202102080459). Guangdong Provincial special fund for modern Agriculture Industry Technology Innovation teams (2022KJ119)."