About the Authors

Jun-Yu Ma

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Mo Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhao-Jia Ge

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yibo Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiang-Hong Ou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shuhui Song

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dongmei Tian

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jin Yang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bing Zhang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ying-Chun Ou-Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Hou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhonghua Liu

Affiliation College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Heide Schatten

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Qing-Yuan Sun

sunqy@ioz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive 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: QS JM ML. Performed the experiments: JM ZG ML DT SS JY BZ YL. Analyzed the data: JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YO YH. Wrote the paper: JM QS HS. Participated in discussion of the experiment: XO ZL.