About the Authors

Haitao Wei

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Song Wang

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qinghuang Chen

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Yuhai Chen

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaojuan Chi

Affiliation College of Animal Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Lianfeng Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Human Disease Comparative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Comparative Medical Center, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Shile Huang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

George F. Gao

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ji-Long Chen

chenjl@im.ac.cn

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Animal Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW GFG JLC. Performed theexperiments: HW SW QC YC XC. Analyzed the data: HW SH JLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ. Wrote the paper: HW SH JLC.