About the Authors

Yupu Diao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yupu Diao, Yumin Qi

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Yumin Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yupu Diao, Yumin Qi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Yajun Ma

Affiliation Department of Etiologic Biology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Ai Xia

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Igor Sharakhov

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Xiaoguang Chen

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jim Biedler

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Erjun Ling

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Zhijian Jake Tu

jaketu@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJT. Performed the experiments: YD YQ YM AX XC. Analyzed the data: YD YQ YM AX IS JB ZJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM XC EL. Wrote the paper: ZJT YD YQ IS.