About the Authors

Peng Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lei Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Huichun Tong

dongxz@im.ac.cn (XD); Tonghuichun@im.ac.cn (HT)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiuzhu Dong

dongxz@im.ac.cn (XD); Tonghuichun@im.ac.cn (HT)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ XD HT. Performed the experiments: PZ LL. Analyzed the data: PZ XD HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ LL. Wrote the paper: PZ XD HT.