About the Authors

Ping Lin

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

Tingcai Cheng

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

Sanyuan Ma

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

Junping Gao

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

Shengkai Jin

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

Liang Jiang

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

Qingyou Xia

xiaqy@swu.edu.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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