About the Authors

Yin Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Qi, Daniel W. A. Noble

qiyin@cib.ac.cn

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Daniel W. A. Noble

Contributed equally to this work with: Yin Qi, Daniel W. A. Noble

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jinzhong Fu

Affiliations Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Martin J. Whiting

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQ DN JF. Performed the experiments: YQ. Analyzed the data: YQ DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YQ JF. Wrote the paper: YQ DWAN JF MJW.