About the Authors

Xian Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Dangfeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Pan Jing

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yuangan Wu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yanzhi Xia

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Maorong Chen

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ling Hong

lhong@mail.hust.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, College of Life Science and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX LH. Performed the experiments: XW DW PJ YW MC. Analyzed the data: YX LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC LH. Wrote the paper: LH. Obtained the software used in analysis: XW.