About the Authors

Kang Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kang Kang, Jiasheng Zhong

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Jiasheng Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Kang Kang, Jiasheng Zhong

Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Liang Jiang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Gang Liu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Christine Yuan Gou

Affiliation Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Qiong Wu

Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

You Wang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Jun Luo

luojun1@yahoo.com (JL); dmgou@hotmail.com (DG)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Deming Gou

luojun1@yahoo.com (JL); dmgou@hotmail.com (DG)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL DG. Performed the experiments: KK. Analyzed the data: JZ LJ QW YW. Wrote the manuscript: KK. revised the manuscript: GL CYG.