About the Authors

Yun-Fu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Fu Chen, Li-Fu Liao

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Li-Fu Liao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Fu Chen, Li-Fu Liao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Laboratory Animal Research, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Urumqi, The People’s Republic of China

Na Wu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Jiang-Mei Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Institute of zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Peng Zhang

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Yan-Zi Wen

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Geoff Hide

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

De-Hua Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

laidehua@mail.sysu.edu.cn (D-HL); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China

Zhao-Rong Lun

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

laidehua@mail.sysu.edu.cn (D-HL); lsslzr@mail.sysu.edu.cn (Z-RL)

Affiliations MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre and Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.