About the Authors

Bing Han

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Valérie Polonais

Affiliations Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, Clermont-Ferrand, France, CNRS, UMR 6023, LMGE, Aubière, France

Tatsuki Sugi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rama Yakubu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Peter M. Takvorian

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Ann Cali

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Keith Maier

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Mengxian Long

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Matthew Levy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Herbert B. Tanowitz

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Guoqing Pan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Frédéric Delbac

Affiliations Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, Clermont-Ferrand, France, CNRS, UMR 6023, LMGE, Aubière, France

Zeyang Zhou

louis.weiss@einstein.yu.edu (LMW); zyzhou@swu.edu.cn (ZZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Key Laboratory for Sericulture Functional Genomics and Biotechnology of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Louis M. Weiss

louis.weiss@einstein.yu.edu (LMW); zyzhou@swu.edu.cn (ZZ)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BH FD ZZ LMW. Formal analysis: BH LMW. Funding acquisition: BH ZZ LMW. Investigation: BH VP LMW. Methodology: BH VP TS RY LMW. Project administration: LMW. Resources: PMT AC MLe MLo. Supervision: ZZ GP PMT LMW. Validation: BH LMW. Visualization: BH LMW. Writing – original draft: BH. Writing – review & editing: BH KM MLe HBT LMW.