About the Authors

Xi Liu

Affiliation Cornell Institute for Host Microbe Interactions and Disease, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Hodgson

Affiliations Cornell Institute for Host Microbe Interactions and Disease, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Nicolas Buchon

nicolas.buchon@cornell.edu

Affiliation Cornell Institute for Host Microbe Interactions and Disease, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.