About the Authors

Jiandui Mi

Current address: College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, International Centre for Tibetan Ecosystem Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Jianwei Zhou

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, International Centre for Tibetan Ecosystem Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Xiaodan Huang

Affiliation School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Ruijun Long

longrj@lzu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, International Centre for Tibetan Ecosystem Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RL JM. Data curation: JM. Formal analysis: JM XH. Funding acquisition: RL. Investigation: JM JZ. Methodology: JM XH JZ. Project administration: RL. Resources: JM JZ. Software: JM. Supervision: RL. Validation: RL. Visualization: JM. Writing – original draft: JM. Writing – review & editing: JM XH JZ RL.