About the Authors

Wei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wang, Mao-Hua Huang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Mao-Hua Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Wang, Mao-Hua Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Xiao-Long Dong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Chun-Li Chai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Cai-Xia Pan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Hui Tang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Yan-Hong Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Fang-Yin Dai

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Min-Hui Pan

pmh0476@hotmail.com (MHP); lucheng@swu.edu.cn (CL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Cheng Lu

pmh0476@hotmail.com (MHP); lucheng@swu.edu.cn (CL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW MHH MHP CL. Performed the experiments: WW MHH XLD CXP. Analyzed the data: WW MHH HT YHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHP CL FYD CLC. Wrote the paper: WW MHH MHP.