About the Authors

Nadia Chacko

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadia Chacko, Youbao Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Youbao Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Nadia Chacko, Youbao Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Ence Yang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Linqi Wang

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

James J. Cai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Xiaorong Lin

xlin@bio.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC YZ EY LW JJC XL. Performed the experiments: NC YZ LW EY XL. Analyzed the data: NC YZ EY JJC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJC XL. Wrote the paper: NC YZ XL.