About the Authors

Guowu Bian

Contributed equally to this work with: Guowu Bian, Guoli Zhou

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Parasitology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Guoli Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Guowu Bian, Guoli Zhou

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

Peng Lu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 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, Sun Yat-sen University - Michigan State University Joint Center of Vector Control for Tropical Diseases, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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