About the Authors

Juan Wang

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Yuxia Wu

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Guangpeng Ren

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Qiuhong Guo

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Jianquan Liu

liujq@nwipb.ac.cn

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Group, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Farming System, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Martin Lascoux

Affiliations Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Program in Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL. Performed the experiments: JW. Analyzed the data: JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JW YW GR QG. Wrote the paper: JW JL ML.