About the Authors

Yu-Chung Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chung Chiang, Bing-Hong Huang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Bing-Hong Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chung Chiang, Bing-Hong Huang

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Pei-Chun Liao

pcliao@mail.npust.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCL. Performed the experiments: BHH. Analyzed the data: PCL YCC BHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PCL YCC BHH. Wrote the paper: PCL.