About the Authors

William R. Reid

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Lee Zhang

Affiliations Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America, Genomics and Sequencing Laboratory, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Feng Liu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Nannan Liu

liunann@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL LZ. Performed the experiments: WRR FL. Analyzed the data: WRR LZ FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL LZ. Wrote the paper: WRR NL LZ.