About the Authors
- Mi Zhou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Zhou, Ruichen Rong
Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Ruichen Rong
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Zhou, Ruichen Rong
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
- Daniel Munro
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
- Chunxia Zhu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Xiang Gao
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
- Qi Zhang
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* E-mail: qizhang@tongji.edu.cn (QZ); Qunfeng.Dong@unt.edu (QD)
Affiliations State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology, Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Department of Endodontics, School of Stomatology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- Qunfeng Dong
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* E-mail: qizhang@tongji.edu.cn (QZ); Qunfeng.Dong@unt.edu (QD)
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ QD. Performed the experiments: MZ CZ. Analyzed the data: RR MZ DM XG QD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ RR DM CZ. Wrote the paper: QD MZ RR DM XG QZ.