About the Authors

Ping Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Meng, Shilong Yang, Chuanbin Shen

Affiliation Life Sciences College of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, China

Shilong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Meng, Shilong Yang, Chuanbin Shen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Chuanbin Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Meng, Shilong Yang, Chuanbin Shen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ke Jiang

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

Mingqiang Rong

rlai72@njau.edu.cn (RL); rongmingqiang@mail.kiz.ac.cn (MR)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ren Lai

rlai72@njau.edu.cn (RL); rongmingqiang@mail.kiz.ac.cn (MR)

Affiliations Life Sciences College of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR RL. Performed the experiments: PM SY CS KJ. Analyzed the data: MR RL. Wrote the paper: MR RL.