About the Authors
- Lin Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhang, Yongxin Fan
Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, China
- Yongxin Fan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Zhang, Yongxin Fan
Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, China
- Haoying Zheng
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Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, China
- Fengguang Du
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Motor Bio-fuel technology, Henan Tianguan Group Co. Ltd., Nanyang, China
- Ke-qin Zhang
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Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, and Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Xiaowei Huang
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Affiliation Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, and Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
- Linfeng Wang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Motor Bio-fuel technology, Henan Tianguan Group Co. Ltd., Nanyang, China
- Man Zhang
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Motor Bio-fuel technology, Henan Tianguan Group Co. Ltd., Nanyang, China
- Qiuhong Niu
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* E-mail: qiuhongniu@gmail.com
Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, China
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests: co-authors Fengguang Du, Linfeng Wang and Man Zhang are employed by State Key Laboratory of Motor Bio-fuel technology, Henan Tianguan Group Co. Ltd., Nanyang, China. This study is partly funded by a research grant from State Key Laboratory of Motor Bio-fuel technology (No. 2013014), Henan Tianguan Enterprise Group Co., Ltd., There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: QN LZ. Performed the experiments: YF HZ MZ. Analyzed the data: QN LZ FD LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FD LW. Wrote the paper: QN LZ. Revised the paper: K-qZ XH.