About the Authors

Jiang-Li Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang-Li Wu, Chun-Xue Zhou

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Chun-Xue Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiang-Li Wu, Chun-Xue Zhou

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Shandong University School of Basic Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, PR China, National Animal Protozoa Laboratory and College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Peng-Jie Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Jin Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yue-Qin Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Fei Xue

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Awraris Getachew

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shu-Fa Xu

xushufa@caas.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SFX CXZ JLW. Data curation: CXZ JLW. Formal analysis: CXZ JLW. Funding acquisition: SFX. Investigation: CXZ JLW SFX. Methodology: JLW PJW FX JX YQG. Project administration: SFX. Resources: CXZ JLW PJW FX SFX. Software: CXZ JLW. Supervision: CXZ JLW SFX. Validation: CXZ JLW. Visualization: CXZ JLW. Writing – original draft: CXZ JLW. Writing – review & editing: CXZ JLW SFX AG.