About the Authors

Ken Tan

kentan@xtbg.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, China, Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

Zongwen Hu

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

Weiwen Chen

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

Zhengwei Wang

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

Yuchong Wang

Affiliation Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

James C. Nieh

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT ZWW JCN. Performed the experiments: KT ZWH WWC ZWW YCW. Analyzed the data: KT JCN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCN. Wrote the paper: KT JCN.