About the Authors

Yong-Yi Shen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Yi Shen, Wei-Ping Zhou

zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Y-PZ); shen_yongyi@yahoo.com.cn (Y-YS)

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

Wei-Ping Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Yi Shen, Wei-Ping Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Tai-Cheng Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Yan-Ni Zeng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Gui-Mei Li

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

David M. Irwin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ya-Ping Zhang

zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Y-PZ); shen_yongyi@yahoo.com.cn (Y-YS)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYS YPZ. Analyzed the data: YYS WPZ TCZ YNZ GML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YPZ. Wrote the paper: YYS DMI YPZ.