About the Authors

Jing Gao

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shilong Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Xinling Wang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yang Yang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Qihua Luo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Miyun Apicultural Station, Beijing, China

Xing Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Beijing Apicultural Station, Beijing, China

Feng Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Jiangxi Institute of Apicultural Research, Nanchang, China

Qiang Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhongmin Fu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Bee Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Qingyun Diao

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Pingli Dai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

daipingli@caas.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.