About the Authors

Jun-Dong He

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun-Dong He, Min-Sheng Peng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, KIZ/CUHK Joint Laboratory of Bioresources and Molecular Research in Common Diseases, Kunming, China

Min-Sheng Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun-Dong He, Min-Sheng Peng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, KIZ/CUHK Joint Laboratory of Bioresources and Molecular Research in Common Diseases, Kunming, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Huy Ho Quang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Khoa Pham Dang

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

An Vu Trieu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Shi-Fang Wu

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

Jie-Qiong Jin

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

Robert W. Murphy

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Yong-Gang Yao

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

Ya-Ping Zhang

zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, KIZ/CUHK Joint Laboratory of Bioresources and Molecular Research in Common Diseases, Kunming, China, Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-PZ J-DH M-SP. Performed the experiments: J-DH J-QJ. Analyzed the data: M-SP J-DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M-SP J-DH HHQ KPD AVT S-FW J-QJ. Wrote the paper: Y-PZ J-DH M-SP Y-GY RWM.