About the Authors

Jian Zhou

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biological Clocks Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Wangjie Yu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biological Clocks Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Paul E. Hardin

phardin@bio.tamu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biological Clocks Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PEH JZ. Formal analysis: JZ. Funding acquisition: PEH. Investigation: WY JZ. Project administration: PEH. Resources: WY. Supervision: PEH. Visualization: PEH JZ. Writing – original draft: JZ. Writing – review & editing: PEH JZ.