About the Authors

Xiaochu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochu Li, Floricel Gonzalez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, BIOTRANS Graduate Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Floricel Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaochu Li, Floricel Gonzalez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Nathaniel Esteves

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Birgit E. Scharf

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bscharf@vt.edu (BES); chenjing@vt.edu (JC)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bscharf@vt.edu (BES); chenjing@vt.edu (JC)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.