About the Authors

Guoying Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoying Dong, Cong Xu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Cong Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guoying Dong, Cong Xu

Affiliation College of Food Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Chengmin Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bin Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hong Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dale Louis Nolte

Affiliation National Wildlife Disease Program, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Thomas Jude Deliberto

Affiliation National Wildlife Disease Program, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Mingxing Duan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Guangju Ji

hehx@ioz.ac.cn (HH); gj28@ibp.ac.cn (GJ)

Affiliation National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hongxuan He

hehx@ioz.ac.cn (HH); gj28@ibp.ac.cn (GJ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, National Research Center For Wildlife Born Diseases, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH GJ GD MD. Performed the experiments: GD CW JL. Analyzed the data: CX BW HZ TJD DLN. Wrote the paper: GD CX. Read and approved the final manuscript: GD CX CW BW JL HZ DLN TJD MD GJ HH.