About the Authors

Chunxiao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxiao Yang, Huipeng Pan

Affiliations Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Huipeng Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxiao Yang, Huipeng Pan

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Yong Liu

xuguozhou@uky.edu (XGZ); haoasliu@163.com (YL)

Affiliation Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Changsha, Hunan, China

Xuguo Zhou

xuguozhou@uky.edu (XGZ); haoasliu@163.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HPP YL XGZ. Performed the experiments: HPP CXY. Analyzed the data: HPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XGZ. Wrote the paper: HPP CXY XGZ.