About the Authors

Shu-Yan Wang

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

Jing Luo

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

Robert W. Murphy

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

Shi-Fang Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Chun-Ling Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Yun Gao

gaoy@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YG); zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Y-PZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Ya-Ping Zhang

gaoy@mail.kiz.ac.cn (YG); zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Y-PZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, College of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPZ YG SYW. Performed the experiments: SYW. Analyzed the data: SYW YG RWM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SYW YG JL RWM SFW CLZ. Wrote the paper: SYW RWM.