About the Authors

Yan Hu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shu-Hua Xiao

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Raffi V. Aroian

raroian@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH RVA. Performed the experiments: YH. Analyzed the data: YH RVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHX. Wrote the paper: YH RVA.