About the Authors

Lin Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Cheng, Xing-Kun Jin, Wei-Wei Li

Xing-Kun Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Cheng, Xing-Kun Jin, Wei-Wei Li

Wei-Wei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Cheng, Xing-Kun Jin, Wei-Wei Li

Shuang Li

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Xiao-Nv Guo

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Juan Wang

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Ya-Nan Gong

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Lin He

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Qun Wang

qwang@bio.ecnu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Cloned the two genes described in the manuscript: W-WL Y-NG. Conceived and designed the experiments: LC X-KJ W-WL QW. Performed the experiments: LC X-KJ SL X-NG. Analyzed the data: X-KJ LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC X-KJ JW QW. Wrote the paper: LC X-KJ.