About the Authors

Yanliang Jiang

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Songhao Zhang

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Jian Xu

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianxin Feng

Affiliation Henan Academy of Fishery Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Shahid Mahboob

Affiliation Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Khalid A. Al-Ghanim

Affiliation Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Xiaowen Sun

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Peng Xu

xupeng@cafs.ac.cn

Affiliations CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

As a co-author, Peng Xu is a PLOS ONE Academic Editor. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PX. Performed the experiments: YJ SZ. Analyzed the data: YJ JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YJ SM KAG. Supervised the common carp genome project: XS.