About the Authors

Yangbo Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yangbo Hu, Lipeng Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Lipeng Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yangbo Hu, Lipeng Feng

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yunlong Li

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yong Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Pei Lu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Simon Rayner

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Shiyun Chen

sychen@wh.iov.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

Although the authors have filed a patent application (#CN20120076722.6) in China relating to the method developed in this article, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare there are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, etc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH LF SC. Performed the experiments: YH LF YL. Analyzed the data: YH LF SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ PL. Wrote the paper: YH SR SC.