About the Authors

Min Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Guo, Qian Zhou

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Microbial Genomics and Application, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Qian Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Guo, Qian Zhou

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Yizhuang Zhou

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Linfeng Yang

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Tianxiang Liu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Jinlong Yang

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Yanling Chen

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Longxiang Su

Affiliation Medical College, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Jin Xu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Jing Chen

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Feng Liu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Jiapeng Chen

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Wenkui Dai

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Peixiang Ni

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Chengxiang Fang

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Microbial Genomics and Application, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Ruifu Yang

ruifuyang@gmail.com

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Microbial Genomics and Application, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

This work was supported by BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bioenergy (Grant no. CXB201005240001A), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Microbial Genomics and Application (Grant no. CXB201108250097A) and by grants from the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant no. 2009CB522600), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Contract no. 30930001). All authors except Longxiang Su are members of BGI-Shenzhen. Ruifu Yang, Min Guo, Yizhuang Zhou, Jinlong Yang, Jing Chen are the key members of Key Laboratory of Bioenergy, BGI-Shenzhen; Ruifu Yang, Chengxiang Fang and Min Guo are members of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Environmental Microbial Genomics and Application, BGI-Shenzhen; Ruifu Yang designed the research and is the leader of projects in the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant no. 2009CB522600) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Contract no. 30930001). Longxiang Su helped us deal the data, and the other authors cooperated to finish this work. All authors claim that none of the material in the paper has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG RY CF. Performed the experiments: MG TL JY. Analyzed the data: MG QZ YZ LY LS JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG RY CF YC WD PN FL JX JC. Wrote the paper: MG RY CF.