About the Authors

Yan Yu

jenny_xiang@ncsu.edu (QX); yyu@scu.edu.cn (YY)

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China, Department of Biology, Duke University, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC, United States of America

Qiuyun Xiang

jenny_xiang@ncsu.edu (QX); yyu@scu.edu.cn (YY)

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Paul S. Manos

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bio-Resources and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China

Douglas E. Soltis

Affiliations Florida Natural History Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Pamela S. Soltis

Affiliations Florida Natural History Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Bao-Hua Song

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Shifeng Cheng

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Xin Liu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Gane Wong

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QX. Data curation: YY. Formal analysis: YY. Funding acquisition: QX DES GW XL. Investigation: YY SC XL. Methodology: YY. Project administration: GW QX. Resources: QX PSS DES SC XL GW. Software: YY. Supervision: QX. Validation: PSM DES PSS. Visualization: YY. Writing – original draft: YY QX. Writing – review & editing: QX PSM DES PSS BS.