About the Authors

Yuemei Dong

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Fabio Manfredini

Current address: Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

George Dimopoulos

gdimopou@jhsph.edu

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD FM GD. Performed the experiments: YD FM. Analyzed the data: YD FM GD. Wrote the paper: YD GD.