About the Authors

Zhijin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijin Liu, Boshi Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Boshi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijin Liu, Boshi Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tilo Nadler

Affiliation Frankfurt Zoological Society, Endangered Primate Rescue Center, Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam

Guangjian Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tao Sun

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China

Chengming Huang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China

Qihai Zhou

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China

Jiang Zhou

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China

Tengcheng Que

Affiliation Guangxi Rescue and Research Center of Rare and Endangered Wild Animals, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Forestry Department, Nanning, China

Ziming Wang

Affiliation College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Christian Roos

lim@ioz.ac.cn (ML); croos@dpz.eu (CR)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany, Gene Bank of Primates, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

Ming Li

lim@ioz.ac.cn (ML); croos@dpz.eu (CR)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation 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: ZL CR ML. Performed the experiments: ZL BW CR. Analyzed the data: ZL BW GL ZW CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW TN TS CH QZ JZ TQ. Wrote the paper: ZL CR BW.