Researchers who wish to use our MnTEdb database are encouraged to refer to our publication: Bi Ma, Tian Li, Zhonghuai Xiang, Ningjia He. MnTEdb, a collective resource for mulberry transposable elements. Database (2015) Vol. 2015: article ID bav004; doi:10.1093/database/bav004

We are grateful to all the laboratory members who gave advice during this work. We also thank Sue Wessler, Robert Hubley, Josep Casacuberta, Leonardo Galindo González, Michael Deyholos, Yaowu Yuan, Hao Wang, Ning Jiang, Guojun Yang, Hongen Xu, and Chunguang Du for their suggestion in the identification of TEs.

This work was funded by the research grants from the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (No. 2013AA100605-3), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2362014xk05), the “111” Project (B12006), the Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Chongqing (Grant No. cstc2011jjjq0010).