About the Authors

Di Wen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Life Science, Qiannan Normal College for Nationalities, Duyun, Guizhou, China

Crisalejandra Rivera-Perez

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Mohamed Abdou

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Qiangqiang Jia

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Qianyu He

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xi Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Ola Zyaan

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jingjing Xu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

William G. Bendena

Affiliation Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Stephen S. Tobe

Affiliation Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fernando G. Noriega

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Subba R. Palli

Affiliation Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jian Wang

jianwang@umd.edu (JW); lisheng01@sibs.ac.cn (SL)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sheng Li

jianwang@umd.edu (JW); lisheng01@sibs.ac.cn (SL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL JW. Performed the experiments: DW CRP MA QJ QH XL OZ JX SL. Analyzed the data: DW CRP SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FGN SST WGB SRP. Wrote the paper: SL DW FGN SRP SST WGB JW.