This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC0863300);Ministry of Agriculture of China(2016ZX08009003-006);Key Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(KJZD-SW-L11);Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,Chinese Academy of Sciences(the Large Research Infrastructure Funding)。
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