About the Authors

Qiang Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Gao, Kai Jin, Sheng-Hua Ying, Yongjun Zhang, Guohua Xiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Kai Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Gao, Kai Jin, Sheng-Hua Ying, Yongjun Zhang, Guohua Xiao

Affiliation College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Sheng-Hua Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Gao, Kai Jin, Sheng-Hua Ying, Yongjun Zhang, Guohua Xiao

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yongjun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Gao, Kai Jin, Sheng-Hua Ying, Yongjun Zhang, Guohua Xiao

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Guohua Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Gao, Kai Jin, Sheng-Hua Ying, Yongjun Zhang, Guohua Xiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yanfang Shang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Zhibing Duan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xiao Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xue-Qin Xie

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Gang Zhou

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Guoxiong Peng

Affiliation College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Zhibing Luo

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Wei Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Bing Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Weiguo Fang

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sibao Wang

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yi Zhong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Li-Jun Ma

Affiliation The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Raymond J. St. Leger

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Guo-Ping Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yan Pei

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Ming-Guang Feng

mgfeng@zju.edu.cn (M-GF); yuxianxia@cqu.edu.cn (YX); cswang@sibs.ac.cn (CW)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yuxian Xia

mgfeng@zju.edu.cn (M-GF); yuxianxia@cqu.edu.cn (YX); cswang@sibs.ac.cn (CW)

Affiliation College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

Chengshu Wang

mgfeng@zju.edu.cn (M-GF); yuxianxia@cqu.edu.cn (YX); cswang@sibs.ac.cn (CW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJ St. Leger, C Wang. Performed the experiments: Q Gao, SH Ying, Y Shang, Z Duan, W Huang, B Wang. Analyzed the data: Q Gao, K Jin, SH Ying, Y Zhang, G Xiao, Y Shang, Z Duan, X Hu, XQ Xie, G Zhou, G Peng, Z Luo, W Huang, B Wang, W Fang, S Wang, Y Zhong, LJ Ma, GP Zhao, Y Pei, MG Feng, Y Xia, C Wang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y Pei, MG Feng, Y Xia. Wrote the paper: RJ St. Leger, C Wang.