About the Authors

Peng Lu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Guowu Bian

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Xiaoling Pan

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Zhiyong Xi

xizy@msu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL ZX. Performed the experiments: PL GB XP. Analyzed the data: PL ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL ZX. Wrote the paper: PL ZX.