About the Authors

Lihui Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihui Zhu, Jiangping Zhao, Jianbin Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Jiangping Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihui Zhu, Jiangping Zhao, Jianbin Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Jianbin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lihui Zhu, Jiangping Zhao, Jianbin Wang

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Chao Hu

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Jinbiao Peng

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Rong Luo

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Chunjing Zhou

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Juntao Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Jiaojiao Lin

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Youxin Jin

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Richard E. Davis

richard.davis@ucdenver.edu (RED); cheng_guofeng@yahoo.com, chenggfeng@shvri.ac.cn (GC)

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Guofeng Cheng

richard.davis@ucdenver.edu (RED); cheng_guofeng@yahoo.com, chenggfeng@shvri.ac.cn (GC)

Affiliation Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Animal Parasitology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC YJ. Performed the experiments: GC LZ JZ CH JP RL CZ JLiu. Analyzed the data: GC JW LZ CH RED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC YJ JLin. Wrote the paper: GC RED.