This study was supported by the National Program for the Development of New Transgenic Species of China (2014ZX08010-016B to S Li and 2011ZX08011-006 to XXC) and the National Science Foundation of China (31302034 to Shumin Liu). We thank Nature Publishing Group for polishing the English language.
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