About the Authors

Lin-Lin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin-Lin Liu, Hui Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Hui Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin-Lin Liu, Hui Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Teng-Fei Ma

Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

Fei Ge

Affiliations Department of Endocrine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ce-Shi Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Ya-Ping Zhang

zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn

Affiliations Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ YPZ. Performed the experiments: LLL HZ TFM FG. Analyzed the data: LLL HZ TFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSC YPZ. Wrote the paper: LLL HZ CSC YPZ. Obtained permission for use of cell line: FG CSC.