About the Authors

Yongqiang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yu Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Gemei Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yanhui Lu

yhlu@ippcaas.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YHL YQL. Data curation: YQL YHL. Formal analysis: YQL YHL. Funding acquisition: YHL. Investigation: YQL YG GML YHL. Methodology: YQL GML YHL. Project administration: YHL. Resources: GML YHL. Software: YQL. Supervision: GML YHL. Validation: YQL. Visualization: YQL YHL. Writing – original draft: YQL. Writing – review & editing: YHL GML.