About the Authors

Hui-Xian Mei

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Xian Mei, Liang Cheng, Jia Tang

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Liang Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Xian Mei, Liang Cheng, Jia Tang

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jia Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui-Xian Mei, Liang Cheng, Jia Tang

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zi-Ying Fu

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xin Wang

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Philip H.-S. Jen

Jenp@missouri.edu (PHSJ); qcchen2003@yahoo.com.cn (QC-C)

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Qi-Cai Chen

Jenp@missouri.edu (PHSJ); qcchen2003@yahoo.com.cn (QC-C)

Affiliation College of Life sciences and Hubei Key Lab of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CQ-C. Performed the experiments: H-XM LC JT Z-YF XW. Analyzed the data: MH-X LC JT Z-YF PHSJ CQ-C. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QC-C. Wrote the paper: H-XM CQ-C PHSJ.