About the Authors

Ren-Yan Duan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Yan Duan, Xiao-Quan Kong

Affiliation School of Life Science, Anqing Normal College, Anqing, Anhui, PR China

Xiao-Quan Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ren-Yan Duan, Xiao-Quan Kong

Affiliation School of Life Science, Anqing Normal College, Anqing, Anhui, PR China

Min-Yi Huang

huang.m.y@163.com

Affiliation School of Life Science, Anqing Normal College, Anqing, Anhui, PR China

Wei-Yi Fan

Affiliation College of Life Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, PR China

Zhi-Gao Wang

Affiliation School of Life Science, Anqing Normal College, Anqing, Anhui, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RYD. Performed the experiments: XQK. Analyzed the data: MYH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQK. Wrote the paper: RYD XQK. Edited and provided suggestions for readability and clarity: WYF ZGW. Developed the research framework and provided guidance throughout the project: MYH.