About the Authors

Zhipeng Cai

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Tong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Xiu-Feng Wan

wan@cvm.msstate.edu or wanhenry@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ XFW. Performed the experiments: ZC. Analyzed the data: ZC TZ XFW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XFW. Wrote the paper: ZC TZ XFW.