About the Authors

Cicero L. T. Chang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Chih-Yao Chung

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Chih-Horng Kuo

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Tien-Fen Kuo

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chu-Wen Yang

cwyang@mail.scu.edu.tw (CWY); wcyang@gate.sinica.edu.tw (WCY)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Chin Yang

cwyang@mail.scu.edu.tw (CWY); wcyang@gate.sinica.edu.tw (WCY)

Affiliations Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Aquaculture, National Ocean University, Keelung Chung, Taiwan, Institute of Pharmacology, Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WCY CLTC. Performed the experiments: CYC CHK TFK. Analyzed the data: CHK CWY CLTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLTC. Wrote the paper: WCY.