About the Authors

Shaobo Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaobo Qin, Yunming Mo

Affiliations Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yunming Mo

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaobo Qin, Yunming Mo

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Ke Jiang

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Bo Cai

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Feng Xie

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Jianping Jiang

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Robert W. Murphy

Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jia-Tang Li

lijt@cib.ac.cn (JTL); arcib@cib.ac.cn (yw)

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yuezhao Wang

lijt@cib.ac.cn (JTL); arcib@cib.ac.cn (yw)

Affiliation Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTL YW. Performed the experiments: SQ KJ BC. Analyzed the data: SQ KJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM FX JJ. Wrote the paper: SQ JTL RWM.