About the Authors

Jinfang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfang Yang, Qian Wang, Fenfen He, Yanxia Ding

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Qian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfang Yang, Qian Wang, Fenfen He, Yanxia Ding

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Fenfen He

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfang Yang, Qian Wang, Fenfen He, Yanxia Ding

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Yanxia Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinfang Yang, Qian Wang, Fenfen He, Yanxia Ding

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Qingyan Sun

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Tianmiao Hua

tmhua@ahnu.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Minmin Xi

Affiliation Business School, University of the West Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY QW TH. Performed the experiments: JY QW FH YD QS. Analyzed the data: QW FH JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QS MX. Wrote the paper: JY QS. Revised paper and language: TH MX.