About the Authors

Juntao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Juntao Liu, Lihui Zhu, Jianbin Wang, Lin Qiu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

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

Lihui Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Juntao Liu, Lihui Zhu, Jianbin Wang, Lin Qiu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

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

Jianbin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Juntao Liu, Lihui Zhu, Jianbin Wang, Lin Qiu

Roles Formal analysis, Software

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

Lin Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Juntao Liu, Lihui Zhu, Jianbin Wang, Lin Qiu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yongjun Chen

Roles Resources, Validation

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

Richard E. Davis

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Guofeng Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chengguofeng@caas.cn, cheng_guofeng@yahoo.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.