About the Authors

Dawn M. Wong

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jianyong Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Qiao-Hong Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Qian Han

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

James M. Mutunga

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Ania Wysinski

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Troy D. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Haizhen Ding

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Tiffany L. Carpenetti

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Astha Verma

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Rafique Islam

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sally L. Paulson

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Polo C.-H. Lam

Affiliation Molsoft LLC, San Diego, California, United States of America

Maxim Totrov

Affiliation Molsoft LLC, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Bloomquist

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Paul R. Carlier

pcarlier@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRC JRB JL SLP MT. Performed the experiments: DMW JL QHC QH JMM AW TDA HD TLC AV RI PCHL. Analyzed the data: PRC DMW JRB JL TDA MT. Wrote the paper: PRC.