About the Authors

Ting Tang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China

Xiang Li

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China

Xue Yang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China

Xue Yu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China

Jianhui Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Fengsong Liu

liufengsong@hbu.edu.cn (FSL); huangdw@ioz.ac.cn (DWH)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China

Dawei Huang

liufengsong@hbu.edu.cn (FSL); huangdw@ioz.ac.cn (DWH)

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FSL. Performed the experiments: TT XL X. Yang X. Yu. Analyzed the data: XL JHW FSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FSL DWH. Wrote the paper: TT FSL.