About the Authors
- Yuxiang Fei
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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
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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
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* E-mail: 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
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN United States of America
- Dunwu Qi
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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
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* E-mail: 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.