About the Authors

Hailong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailong Yang, Yipeng Wang, Yao Xiao

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yipeng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailong Yang, Yipeng Wang, Yao Xiao

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yao Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hailong Yang, Yipeng Wang, Yao Xiao

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ying Wang

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing Wu

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Cunbao Liu

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Huahu Ye

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Fengliang Li

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Haining Yu

rlai@mail.kiz.ac.cn (RL); yuhaining@dlut.edu.cn (HY)

Affiliation School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Ren Lai

rlai@mail.kiz.ac.cn (RL); yuhaining@dlut.edu.cn (HY)

Affiliations Biotoxin Units of Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Life Sciences College of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLY YPW YX YW JW CBL HHY HNY RL. Performed the experiments: HLY YPW YX YW JW CBL HHY FFL. Analyzed the data: HNY RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HNY RL. Wrote the paper: HNY RL.