About the Authors

Hansheng Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansheng Zhao, Mao Li, Kechi Fang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Mao Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansheng Zhao, Mao Li, Kechi Fang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Kechi Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansheng Zhao, Mao Li, Kechi Fang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Wenfeng Chen

chenwf@cau.edu.cn (WC); wangjing@psych.ac.cn (JW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jing Wang

chenwf@cau.edu.cn (WC); wangjing@psych.ac.cn (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: KF HZ. Wrote the paper: KF ML HZ. Reconstructed the model of S. meliloti 1021: KF HZ. Surpervised the research: JW WC.