About the Authors

Wing-Yee Liu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

Chi-Fat Wong

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

Karl Ming-Kar Chung

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

Jing-Wei Jiang

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China, Bioinformatics Centre, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Frederick Chi-Ching Leung

fcleung@hkucc.hku.hk

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China, Bioinformatics Centre, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

FCL is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member and this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WYL FCL. Performed the experiments: WYL FCL. Analyzed the data: WYL CFW KMKC JWJ FCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WYL CFW KMKC JWJ FCL. Wrote the manuscript: WYL CFW KMKC JWJ FCL.