About the Authors

Daoliang Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Daoliang Lan, Xianrong Xiong

Affiliations College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu ic610041, Peoples’ Republic of China, Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, 610041, Peoples’ Republic of China

Xianrong Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Daoliang Lan, Xianrong Xiong

Affiliation College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu ic610041, Peoples’ Republic of China

Cai Huang

Affiliation College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu ic610041, Peoples’ Republic of China

Tserang Donko Mipam

Affiliation Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, 610041, Peoples’ Republic of China

Jian Li

lijian@swun.cn

Affiliations College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu ic610041, Peoples’ Republic of China, Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, 610041, Peoples’ Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL DL. Performed the experiments: DL XX CH TDM. Analyzed the data: DL XX JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL XX CH. Wrote the paper: DL XX JL. The data analysis of real-time PCR: CH.