About the Authors

Yan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Jiping Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Jiping Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Jiping Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Yongtao Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Konrad C. Bradley

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jiyue Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Huanchun Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Meilin Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Hongbo Zhou

hbzhou@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ HC MJ. Performed the experiments: YZ JZ YL. Analyzed the data: KCB JC HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ KCB. Wrote the paper: YZ JZ HZ.