About the Authors

Xiao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao Liu, Wei Zhang, Xiaojing Zeng

Affiliations BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao Liu, Wei Zhang, Xiaojing Zeng

Affiliations BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Xiaojing Zeng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao Liu, Wei Zhang, Xiaojing Zeng

Affiliations BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Ruifang Zhang

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Yuanping Du

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Xueyu Hong

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Hongzhi Cao

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Zheng Su

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Changxi Wang

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Jinghua Wu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Chao Nie

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Xun Xu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China

Karsten Kristiansen

kk@bio.ku.dk

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

XL, WZ, XJZ, XH, RZ, YD, CW, HC, ZS, JW, CN, XX are employees of Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). The funder (BGI) provided support in the form of salaries for authors XL, WZ, XJZ, XH, RZ, YD, CW, HC, ZS, JW, CN, XX. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL KK. Performed the experiments: XZ XH RZ. Analyzed the data: WZ YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ XZ XH. Wrote the paper: WZ XL. Assisted with sequencing: CW HC ZS JW CN XX.