About the Authors

Ji Yang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhigang Jiang

jiangzg@ioz.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yan Zeng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mardan Turghan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hongxia Fang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunwang Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY ZJ YZ. Performed the experiments: JY MT HF. Analyzed the data: JY ZJ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY ZJ HF CL. Wrote the paper: JY. Collected the samples in the field: JY MT CL. Manuscript editing: ZJ YZ MT HF CL. Provided information on the population genetics and ecology that contributed to the interpretation of data: ZJ YZ.