About the Authors

Ke Mao

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Libo Jiang

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Wenhao Bo

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Fang Xu

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Rongling Wu

rwu@bjfu.edu.cn

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Competing Interests

The corresponding author Rongling Wu has served as an editor for this journal, and he is still currently in that role. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM RW. Performed the experiments: KM LJ. Analyzed the data: KM LJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB FX RW. Wrote the paper: KM RW.