About the Authors

Da Ao

Contributed equally to this work with: Da Ao, Hui-Chen Guo

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Hui-Chen Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Da Ao, Hui-Chen Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Shi-Qi Sun

shiqisun21@hotmail.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

De-Hui Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

To Sing Fung

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Yan-Quan Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Shi-Chong Han

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Xue-Ping Yao

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Sui-Zhong Cao

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, China

Ding Xiang Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Xiang-Tao Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and OIE/National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCG SQS DXL XTL. Performed the experiments: DA HCG TSF DHS SCH. Analyzed the data: DA HCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DHS YQW XPY SZC. Wrote the paper: DA HCG DXL.