About the Authors

Zi-An Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-An Fang, Guang-Hui Wang

Affiliations Université Paris Sud-11, CNRS UMR 8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France, Institute of Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Guang-Hui Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-An Fang, Guang-Hui Wang

Affiliations School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, Laboratoire Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes, Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay-Malabry, France

Ai-Lian Chen

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

You-Fang Li

Affiliation Université Paris Sud-11, CNRS UMR 8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France

Jian-Ping Liu

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yu-Yang Li

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara

Affiliation Université Paris Sud-11, CNRS UMR 8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France

Wei-Guo Bao

weiguo.bao@igmors.u-psud.fr

Affiliation Université Paris Sud-11, CNRS UMR 8621, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WGB. Performed the experiments: ZAF YFL JPL YYL WGB. Analyzed the data: WGB. Wrote the paper: MBF WGB. Performed the mathematical analyses. Performed the mathematical analyses: AC.