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The mitochondrial genome sequence data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Genome Warehouse in National Genomics Data Center (National Genomics Data Center Members and Partners, 2020), Beijing Institute of Genomics (China National Center for Bioinformation), Chinese Academy of Sciences, with accession number GWHBJBI01000000 that is publicly accessible at https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gwh. All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Ming Zhang in the laboratory for the comments. This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Ministry of Finance of the People Republic of China (YSBR-019 and XDB26000000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (41925009), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (grant no. 55008731), the Tencent Foundation (through the XPLORER PRIZE).

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