About the Authors

Long Ma

malong@sklmg.edu.cn (LM); horvitz@mit.edu (HRH)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China

Xiaoyang Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China

Jintao Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China

Liange Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China

Yanling Teng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China

H. Robert Horvitz

malong@sklmg.edu.cn (LM); horvitz@mit.edu (HRH)

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM HRH. Performed the experiments: LM XG JL LH YT. Analyzed the data: LM XG HRH. Wrote the paper: LM HRH.