About the Authors

Qiang Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Center for Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Tao Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Research Center for Bioinformatic Engineering and Technique, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China

Ying-Ying Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Current address: Biochemical Engineering Institute, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Affiliation Shandong Provincial Research Center for Bioinformatic Engineering and Technique, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China

Cong Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Current address: College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

De-Xin Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Bin-Guang Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiang Zhu, Tao Qin, Ying-Ying Jiang, Cong Ji, De-Xin Kong, Bin-Guang Ma

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Center for Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hong-Yu Zhang

zhy630@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Center for Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYZ. Performed the experiments: QZ TQ YYJ CJ DXK BGM. Analyzed the data: QZ TQ YYJ CJ DXK BGM HYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ TQ YYJ CJ DXK BGM. Wrote the paper: HYZ.