About the Authors

Huatao Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenjuan Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gang Song

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanhua Qu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shou-Hsien Li

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jon Fjeldså

Affiliation Center of Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fumin Lei

leifm@ioz.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL HL. Performed the experiments: HL WW. Analyzed the data: HL GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL WW. Wrote the paper: HL FL. Provided some samples, gave many valuable suggestions and revised the manuscript: GS YQ SL JF.