About the Authors

Mochan Li

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Junfeng Liang

Affiliation Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yanchun Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Bang Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Zhu-Liang Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Timothy Y. James

Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jianping Xu

jpxu@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL ZLY TJ JX. Performed the experiments: ML JL YL BF JX. Analyzed the data: ML TJ JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JX. Wrote the paper: ML JL YL BF ZLY TJ JX.