About the Authors

Yuan Yuan Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan Shi, Liang Xian Sun

Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Liang Xian Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan Shi, Liang Xian Sun

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Key Laboratory of Fujian Advanced Education, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Zachary Y. Huang

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Xiao Bo Wu

Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Yong Qiang Zhu

Affiliation Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Hua Jun Zheng

zhenghj@chgc.sh.cn (HJZ); bees1965@sina.com (ZJZ)

Affiliation Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Zhi Jiang Zeng

zhenghj@chgc.sh.cn (HJZ); bees1965@sina.com (ZJZ)

Affiliation Honeybee Research Institute, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJZ HJZ LXS. Performed the experiments: YYS ZJZ XBW YQZ. Analyzed the data: YYS HJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YYS XBW. Wrote the paper: YYS ZYH ZJZ.