About the Authors

Shutong Lei

Affiliations Managing Office for National Assets and Laboratory Equipments, Linyi University, Linyi, China, Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Resources in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Bo Zeng

bzeng@swu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Resources in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Zhi Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Resources in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Xiaolei Su

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Resources in Three Gorges Reservoir Region, School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ. Performed the experiments: SL ZY XS BZ. Analyzed the data: SL BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ. Wrote the paper: SL BZ. Checked grammar of revised manuscript: XS.