About the Authors

Shuang Qiu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

Chengfeng Xiao

xiaoc2007@gmail.com (CX); robertrm@queensu.ca (RMR)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

R. Meldrum Robertson

xiaoc2007@gmail.com (CX); robertrm@queensu.ca (RMR)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SQ CX. Formal analysis: SQ CX. Funding acquisition: RMR. Investigation: SQ CX. Methodology: SQ CX RMR. Project administration: CX RMR. Resources: SQ CX. Software: CX. Supervision: CX RMR. Validation: SQ CX. Visualization: SQ CX RMR. Writing – original draft: SQ CX RMR. Writing – review & editing: SQ CX RMR.