About the Authors

Feng Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhao, Xiaolong Guo, Yanjie Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China

Xiaolong Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhao, Xiaolong Guo, Yanjie Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China

Yanjie Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Feng Zhao, Xiaolong Guo, Yanjie Wang

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

Jie Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China

Wen-hui Lee

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

Yun Zhang

zhangy@mail.kiz.ac.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ FZ. Performed the experiments: XG YW JL WL. Wrote the paper: FZ. Performed the transcriptome assembly and bioinformatics analysis: FZ. Read and approved the final version of the manuscript: YZ FZ XG YW JL WL.