About the Authors

Kai Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Zhao, Gang Chen, Xing-ming Shi

yfwang@hvri.ac.cn (YFW); zk395@yahoo.com.cn (KZ); xianlan.cui@dpipwe.tas.gov.au (XC)

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, Division of Avian Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin, China

Gang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Zhao, Gang Chen, Xing-ming Shi

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

Xing-ming Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Zhao, Gang Chen, Xing-ming Shi

Affiliation Division of Avian Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin, China

Ting-ting Gao

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

Wei Li

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, Division of Avian Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin, China

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Division of Avian Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin, China

Feng-qiang Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

Jin Wu

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

Xianlan Cui

yfwang@hvri.ac.cn (YFW); zk395@yahoo.com.cn (KZ); xianlan.cui@dpipwe.tas.gov.au (XC)

Affiliation Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania, Australia

Yun-Feng Wang

yfwang@hvri.ac.cn (YFW); zk395@yahoo.com.cn (KZ); xianlan.cui@dpipwe.tas.gov.au (XC)

Affiliation Division of Avian Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW KZ GC XS TG. Performed the experiments: KZ GC XS TG WL. Analyzed the data: KZ GC XS YW XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ YZ FZ JW YW. Wrote the paper: YW KZ XC.