We thank all the collaborators, zoos and private owners for pro- viding specimens, particularly SJ O'Brien, M Menotti-Raymond, V David, R Hanson, "Doc" B Antle, YS Zhong, RA Qiu, BH Li, ZQ Lei, WH Yang, J Dong, and JQ Zheng. We thank L Mhuulu, HR Xue, YC Liu, HH Feng, H Yu, L Miao, C Xie, R Guo, Q Li, JX Feng, DY Xu and RZ Yang for technical assistance and GS Barsh for helpful comments. This research was supported by the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271320, 31471179, 31200919).
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