About the Authors

Dawei Chen

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Yuanwei Zhang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Qiyi Yi

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Yun Huang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Heli Hou

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Yingyin Zhang

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Hefei, China

Qiaomei Hao

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Howard J. Cooke

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Hefei, China, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lei Li

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qingyuan Sun

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qinghua Shi

qshi@ustc.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DWC QHS. Performed the experiments: DWC YWZ. Analyzed the data: DWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QMH. Wrote the paper: DWC QHS HJC LL QYS. Modification of the manuscript: QYY YH HLH YYZ.