About the Authors

Zhi-Yong Liao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ru Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gregor F. Barclay

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Yu-Long Feng

fyl@xtbg.ac.cn

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLF. Performed the experiments: ZYL RZ. Analyzed the data: ZYL YLF. Wrote the paper: ZYL YLF GFB.