About the Authors

Dihong Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dihong Lu, Claudia Sepulveda

Affiliation Department of Nematology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Claudia Sepulveda

Contributed equally to this work with: Dihong Lu, Claudia Sepulveda

Affiliation Department of Nematology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Adler R. Dillman

adlerd@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Nematology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ARD DL CS. Formal analysis: ARD DL CS. Funding acquisition: ARD. Investigation: DL CS. Methodology: ARD DL CS. Project administration: ARD. Supervision: ARD DL. Validation: DL CS. Visualization: ARD DL. Writing – original draft: ARD DL CS. Writing – review & editing: ARD DL CS.