About the Authors

Wei Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wei, Xiao-Guang Qi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Xiao-Guang Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wei, Xiao-Guang Qi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Song-Tao Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Da-Peng Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Peng Zhang

Affiliation School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Kang Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Bao-Guo Li

baoguoli@nwu.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China, Institute of Zoology, Shaanxi Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW XGQ BGL PZ. Performed the experiments: WW. Analyzed the data: WW KH GXQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH STG. Wrote the paper: WW XGQ DPZ PZ. Designed the software used in analysis: KH.