About the Authors

Zhen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Liu, Shude Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shude Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen Liu, Shude Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Wei Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dongming Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Robert W. Murphy

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Peng Shi

ship@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL SL PS. Performed the experiments: ZL WW DX. Analyzed the data: ZL SL PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS. Wrote the paper: ZL SL RWM PS.