About the Authors

Shengkai Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Tingcai Cheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Liang Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Ping Lin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Qiong Yang

Affiliation Sericulture and Farm Product Processing Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Yang Xiao

Affiliation Sericulture and Farm Product Processing Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Takahiro Kusakabe

Affiliation Laboratory of Silkworm Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan

Qingyou Xia

xiaqy@swu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ TC QX. Performed the experiments: SJ LJ QY YX. Analyzed the data: SJ TC PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QY YX TK QX. Wrote the paper: SJ TC QX.