About the Authors
- Ying Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Wang, Thomas M. Gilbreath III
Current address: Department of Pathogen Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
Affiliation Biology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America
- Thomas M. Gilbreath III
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Wang, Thomas M. Gilbreath III
Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Phanidhar Kukutla
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Affiliation Biology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America
- Guiyun Yan
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Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Jiannong Xu
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* E-mail: jxu@nmsu.edu
Affiliation Biology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JX TG YW GY. Performed the experiments: TG YW PK JX. Analyzed the data: JX. Wrote the paper: JX TG.