About the Authors

Rachana Gyawali

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

Youbao Zhao

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

Jianfeng Lin

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

Yumeng Fan

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

Xinping Xu

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

Srijana Upadhyay

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

Xiaorong Lin

xlin@bio.tamu.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RG XL. Formal analysis: RG YZ JL XL. Funding acquisition: XL. Investigation: RG YZ YF XX JL. Methodology: RG YZ YF XX SU JL XL. Project administration: RG XL. Resources: XL. Supervision: XL. Validation: RG YZ YF XX JL. Visualization: RG YZ XX SU JL XL. Writing – original draft: RG XL. Writing – review & editing: RG YZ YF XX SU JL XL.