About the Authors

Linqi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Linqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian

lqwang@bio.tamu.edu (LW); xlin@bio.tamu.edu (XL)

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

Xiuyun Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Linqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian

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

Rachana Gyawali

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

Srijana Upadhyay

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

Dylan Foyle

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

Gang Wang

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

James J. Cai

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Xiaorong Lin

lqwang@bio.tamu.edu (LW); xlin@bio.tamu.edu (XL)

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 XT XL. Performed the experiments: LW XT RG SU DF. Analyzed the data: LW XT GW JJC XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL. Wrote the paper: LW XT XL.