About the Authors

Muhammad Badaruddin

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Badaruddin, Lucy J. Holcombe

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Lucy J. Holcombe

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Badaruddin, Lucy J. Holcombe

Current address: Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, Mars Petcare, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Richard A. Wilson

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America.

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Zheng-Yi Wang

Current address: Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Michael J. Kershaw

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Talbot

N.J.Talbot@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB LJH RAW ZYW MJK NJT. Performed the experiments: MB LJH RAW ZYW MJK. Analyzed the data: MB LJH RAW ZYW MJK NJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJK. Wrote the paper: MB LJH NJT.