About the Authors

A-Mei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: A-Mei Zhang, Xiaoyun Jia

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaoyun Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: A-Mei Zhang, Xiaoyun Jia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Rui Bi

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Antonio Salas

Affiliation Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Medicina Legal and Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Shiqiang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xueshan Xiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Panfeng Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiangming Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Qing-Peng Kong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Qingjiong Zhang

qingjiongzhang@yahoo.com (QZ); ygyaozh@yahoo.com (Y-GY)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Yong-Gang Yao

qingjiongzhang@yahoo.com (QZ); ygyaozh@yahoo.com (Y-GY)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-GY A-MZ QZ. Performed the experiments: A-MZ XJ RB. Analyzed the data: A-MZ RB AS Q-PK Y-GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ XJ SL XX PW XG. Wrote the paper: Y-GY A-MZ AS.