About the Authors

Daojun Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Daojun Cheng, Wenliang Qian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Wenliang Qian

Contributed equally to this work with: Daojun Cheng, Wenliang Qian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Yonghu Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Meng Meng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Ling Wei

Affiliation School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Zhiqing Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Silkworm Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan

Lixia Kang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Jian Peng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Qingyou Xia

xiaqy@swu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QX DC WQ. Performed the experiments: WQ YW MM LW ZL LK JP. Analyzed the data: QX DC WQ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WQ YW MM LW ZL LK JP. Wrote the paper: QX DC WQ.