About the Authors

Xue-Qin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Qin Liu, Chang-Ying Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Chang-Ying Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xue-Qin Liu, Chang-Ying Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Qing Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Meng Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Bo-Ning Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Zhong-Huai Xiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Ai-Chun Zhao

zhaoaichun@hotmail.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X-QL C-YL A-CZ. Performed the experiments: X-QL C-YL QG MZ B-NC. Analyzed the data: X-QL C-YL MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: A-CZ Z-HX. Wrote the paper: X-QL C-YL A-CZ.