About the Authors

Yuxiang Fei

Affiliations Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA United States of America, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Northern Suburb, FuTou Shan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Rong Hou

Affiliation Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Northern Suburb, FuTou Shan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

James R. Spotila

jrspotila@verizon.net (JRS); weiling@panda.org.cn (ZZ)

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA United States of America

Frank V. Paladino

Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN United States of America

Dunwu Qi

Affiliation Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Northern Suburb, FuTou Shan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Zhihe Zhang

jrspotila@verizon.net (JRS); weiling@panda.org.cn (ZZ)

Affiliation Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Northern Suburb, FuTou Shan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YF JRS RH FVP ZZ. Data curation: YF JRS FVP. Formal analysis: YF JRS FVP RH DQ. Funding acquisition: YF JRS RH FVP ZZ. Investigation: YF JRS FVP RH DQ ZZ. Methodology: YF JRS FVP. Project administration: YF JRS RH DQ ZZ. Resources: YF JRS FVP RH DQ ZZ. Software: YF JRS FVP. Supervision: JRS FVP RH ZZ. Validation: JRS FVP. Visualization: YF JRS FVP RH. Writing – original draft: YF JRS FVP RH ZZ. Writing – review & editing: JRS FVP.