About the Authors

Weifeng Shi

weifeng.shi@ucd.ie

Affiliation The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Fumin Lei

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chaodong Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Fabian Sievers

Affiliation The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Desmond G. Higgins

Affiliation The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS FL CZ DGH. Performed the experiments: WS CZ. Analyzed the data: WS FL. Wrote the paper: WS FS DGH.