About the Authors

Nannan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Nannan Liu, Ting Li

liunann@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Ting Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Nannan Liu, Ting Li

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

William R. Reid

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Ting Yang

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Lee Zhang

Affiliation Genomics and Sequencing Laboratory, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: TL WRR TY LZ. Analyzed the data: WRR LZ NL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL. Wrote the paper: LZ NL.