About the Authors

Yong-Yi Shen

shenyy@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YYS); zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YPZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Joint Influenza Research Centre (SUMC/HKU), Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Kun Dai

Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Xue Cao

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

Robert W. Murphy

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Xue-Juan Shen

Affiliation Joint Influenza Research Centre (SUMC/HKU), Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Ya-Ping Zhang

shenyy@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YYS); zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YPZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYS YPZ. Performed the experiments: YYS KD XC. Analyzed the data: YYS XJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPZ. Wrote the paper: YYS YPZ RWM.