About the Authors

Tao Chen

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Qin Huang

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Zhaolong Li

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Chengping Lu

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Huochun Yao

yaohch@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC QH ZL WZ CL HY. Performed the experiments: TC QH ZL. Analyzed the data: TC QH HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC QH WZ HY. Wrote the paper: TC.