About the Authors

Hong Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Shi, Xuebin Qi, Hua Zhong

sub@mail.kiz.ac.cn (BS); shihong@mail.kiz.ac.cn (HS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Xuebin Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Shi, Xuebin Qi, Hua Zhong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Hua Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Shi, Xuebin Qi, Hua Zhong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Center for Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Peng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Xiaoming Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Runlin Z. Ma

Affiliation Center for Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bing Su

sub@mail.kiz.ac.cn (BS); shihong@mail.kiz.ac.cn (HS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS BS. Performed the experiments: X-BQ HZ YP X-MZ. Analyzed the data: HS X-BQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R-LZM. Wrote the paper: HS BS.