About the Authors

Xinggang Liao

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Weiguo Fang

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Liangcai Lin

Affiliation Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China

Hsiao-Ling Lu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Raymond J. St. Leger

stleger@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL RJSL. Performed the experiments: XL. Analyzed the data: XL WF LL HLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJSL. Wrote the manuscript: RJSL XL.