About the Authors

Fei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Wang, Qi Fang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Qi Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Wang, Qi Fang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Beibei Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Zhichao Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Jian Hong

Affiliation Analysis Center of Agrobiology and Environmental Sciences & Institute of Agrobiology and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yiming Bao

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jens H. Kuhn

Affiliation Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), Division of Clinical Research (DCR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

John H. Werren

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Qisheng Song

songq@missouri.edu (QS); chu@zju.edu.cn (GY).

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gongyin Ye

songq@missouri.edu (QS); chu@zju.edu.cn (GY).

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology & Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

JHK was initially assigned as an Editor on this paper. After a revise decision was returned, the authors contacted Dr. Kuhn to propose collaborating on the revision due to his expertise on this topic. Dr. Kuhn agreed, and therefore recused himself from further editorial involvement. The authors declare that no further competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FW QF JHW QS GY. Formal analysis: FW YB JHW QS GY. Investigation: FW QF ZY BW. Methodology: FW QF ZY BW JHW QS GY. Resources: FW QF ZY BW JH GY. Validation: FW QF ZY BW. Visualization: FW QF ZY BW. Writing – original draft: FW QS GY. Writing – review & editing: FW JHK JHW QS GY.