About the Authors

Xiangyu Yao

Roles 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, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Shihoko Kojima

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chenjing@vt.edu

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.