About the Authors

Hongxiang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxiang Guo, Yunchao Kan

Affiliation The Key Lab of National Tobacco Cultivation, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Yunchao Kan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxiang Guo, Yunchao Kan

Affiliation China-UK NYNU-RRes Joint Lab of Insect Biology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, China

Weiqun Liu

microrna09@126.com

Affiliation The Key Lab of National Tobacco Cultivation, College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WQL. Performed the experiments: HXG YCK. Analyzed the data: HXG YCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WQL. Wrote the paper: WQL HXG.