About the Authors

Linqi Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Bing Zhai

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Xiaorong Lin

xlin@bio.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW BZ XL. Performed the experiments: LW BZ XL. Analyzed the data: LW BZ XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL. Wrote the paper: LW XL.