About the Authors

Jinye Liang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jinye-liang@uiowa.edu (JL); bin-he@uiowa.edu (BZH)

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Hanxi Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanxi Tang, Lindsey F. Snyder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Lindsey F. Snyder

Contributed equally to this work with: Hanxi Tang, Lindsey F. Snyder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Christopher E. Youngstrom

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Bin Z. He

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jinye-liang@uiowa.edu (JL); bin-he@uiowa.edu (BZH)

Affiliations Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.