About the Authors

Yanfen Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfen Li, Malavika K. Adur

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Malavika K. Adur

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanfen Li, Malavika K. Adur

Current address: Department of Animal Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Athilakshmi Kannan

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Juanmahel Davila

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yuechao Zhao

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Romana A. Nowak

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Milan K. Bagchi

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Indrani C. Bagchi

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Quanxi Li

quanxili@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: QL. Formal analysis: QL. Funding acquisition: QL. Investigation: YL MKA QL. Methodology: YL MKA AK JD YZ. Resources: QL ICB. Supervision: QL ICB MKB RAN. Validation: QL ICB RAN. Visualization: QL. Writing – original draft: QL. Writing – review & editing: ICB RAN.