About the Authors

Da-Hui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Da-Hui Wang, Jian-Rao Hu

Affiliation The Sperm Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jian-Rao Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Da-Hui Wang, Jian-Rao Hu

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Li-Ya Wang

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, The Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yan-Jun Hu

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, The Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Fu-Qing Tan

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Hong Zhou

Affiliation The Sperm Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Jian-Zhong Shao

Affiliation The Sperm Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Wan-Xi Yang

wxyang@spermlab.org

Affiliation The Sperm Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHW JRH WXY. Performed the experiments: DHW LYW. Analyzed the data: DHW LYW YJH FQT WXY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ JRH JZS YJH FQT WXY. Wrote the paper: DHW.