About the Authors

Hsin-I Tong

Affiliations Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Sates of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Wen Kang

Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Affiliation Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Sates of America

Philip M. C. Davy

Affiliation Institute for Biogenesis Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Yingli Shi

Current address: Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Affiliation Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Sates of America

Si Sun

Affiliation Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Sates of America

Richard C. Allsopp

Affiliation Institute for Biogenesis Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Yuanan Lu

yuanan@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United Sates of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL HT. Performed the experiments: HT WK YS PMCD. Analyzed the data: HT WK PMCD YS SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL RCA. Wrote the paper: HT YL PMCD.