About the Authors

Fang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Yang, Kang Ning

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Kang Ning

Contributed equally to this work with: Fang Yang, Kang Ning

Affiliation Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and BioEnergy Genome Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Xingzhi Chang

Affiliation Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and BioEnergy Genome Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Xiao Yuan

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Qichao Tu

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Tong Yuan

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Ye Deng

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Christopher L. Hemme

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Joy Van Nostrand

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Xinping Cui

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Zhili He

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Zhenggang Chen

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Dawei Guo

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Jiangbo Yu

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Yue Zhang

Affiliation Oral Research Center, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Jizhong Zhou

jzhou@ou.edu (JZ); xujian@qibebt.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jian Xu

jzhou@ou.edu (JZ); xujian@qibebt.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliation Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and BioEnergy Genome Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FY JX. Performed the experiments: FY XY ZC DG JY YZ. Analyzed the data: KN XZC QT TY YD CH JVN XPC ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: FY JX.