About the Authors

Xiaofeng Yang

YangxiaofengChina@yahoo.com

Affiliation College of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China

Yusoff Norma-Rashid

Affiliations Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wilson R. Lourenço

Affiliation Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Paris, France

Mingsheng Zhu

† Deceased.

Affiliation College of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFY MSZ. Performed the experiments: XFY. Analyzed the data: XFY YNR WRL MSZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XFY MSZ. Wrote the paper: XFY YNR WRL.