Affiliations

• ¹ College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Centre, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: cwoh@wku.edu.cn.
• ² Faculty of Science & Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia; IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK. Electronic address: julian@umt.edu.my.
• ³ Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, IRD/CNRS/UPS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Bât. 4R1, 31062 Toulouse, France.
• ⁴ Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Empark International Apartment, No. 69, Banding Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
• ⁵ Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Center for Computer Technologies, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia; Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33004, USA.
• ⁶ School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Roseworthy campus, University of Adelaide, 5371 Roseworthy, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁷ CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos, s/n, 4450-208 Porto, Portugal; Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
• ⁸ Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
• ⁹ Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
• ¹¹ Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Center for Computer Technologies, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia; Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA; Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA.
• ¹² Small Mammal Conservation and Research Foundation, Balkhu Bandhudatta Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• ¹³ Zoological Survey of India, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India.
• ¹⁴ Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (LABMC), Département de Biologie, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku (USTM), BP 941 Franceville, Gabon.
• ¹⁵ IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK; Danau Girang Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia; School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK.
• ¹⁶ Faculty of Earth Science, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, UMK Jeli Campus, Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia.
• ¹⁷ IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, C/O Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK; Department of Wildlife Management, PMAS Arid Agricultural University Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
• ¹⁸ Division Forest Office, Sarpang Department of Forests and Park Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan.
• ¹⁹ Laboratory of Biotechnology, Agriculture and Valorization of Biological Resources, UFR Biosciences, University Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
• ²⁰ Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
• ²¹ Laboratory of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey Calavi, Benin.
• ²² School of Business and Management, RMIT University Vietnam, Handi Resco Building, 521 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
• ²³ Women for Conservation & Bhaktapur Multiple Campus, Nepal.
• ²⁴ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Old Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK.
• ²⁵ College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China.
• ²⁶ Bossco Institute of Ecological Environment, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China.
• ²⁷ Department of Basic Sciences, College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• ²⁸ College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Wenzhou Municipal Key Laboratory for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China.
• ²⁹ Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Windmill Road, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK.
• ³⁰ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1305 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.
• ³² School of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Framlington Place, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4BW, UK.
• ³³ School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Malaysia.
• ³⁴ Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, 117599, Singapore.
• ³⁵ Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ³⁶ Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.
• ³⁷ Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China; Institute of Hematology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
• ³⁸ Research Center of Cultural Landscape Protection and Ecological Restoration, The Sino-Portugal Joint Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Conservation Science Supported by the Belt and Road Initiative, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
• ³⁹ Centre for Research in Biotechnology for Agriculture, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁴⁰ Institutes for Systems Genetics, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Xinchuan Road 2222, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
• ⁴¹ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
• ⁴² Department of Clinical Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
• ⁴³ Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, Wirral CH64 7TE, UK.
• ⁴⁴ China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Lingang, Shanghai 201306, China.
• ⁴⁵ College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Zhejiang Province, China; Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Centre, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁴⁶ Institute of Biomedical Big Data, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁴⁷ Museum of Zoology (Block J14), Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou 215123, China.
• ⁵¹ Pangolin Working Group, Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Empark International Apartment, No. 69, Banding Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
• ⁵² Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia.
• ⁵³ Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• ⁵⁴ Quantitative Landscape Ecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University Koblenz-Landau, Fortstrasse 7, 76829 Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.
• ⁵⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ⁵⁶ Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.