About the Authors

Jiwei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States of America

Sayed M. Khalil

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States of America

Robert D. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States of America

Brooke W. Bissinger

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States of America

Noble Egekwu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529, United States of America

Daniel E. Sonenshine

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529, United States of America

R. Michael Roe

Michael_roe@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ RMR DES. Performed the experiments: JZ DES NE BWB. Analyzed the data: JZ SMK RMR DES NE BWB RDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DES RMR BWB NE SMK RDM JZ. Wrote the paper: JZ SMK RMR DES NE BWB RDM. Revising and rewriting of manuscript and approval of final version to be published: RMR DES JZ.