About the Authors

Linan Xu

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Naushaba Hasin

Affiliation Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Manli Shen

Affiliation School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Jianwei He

Affiliations Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China, School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Youlin Xue

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Xiaohong Zhou

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Sarah Perrett

Affiliation National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Youtao Song

ysong@lnu.edu.cn (YS); gary.jones@nuim.ie (GWJ)

Affiliations Province Key Laboratory of Animal Resource and Epidemic Disease Prevention, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China, School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Gary W. Jones

ysong@lnu.edu.cn (YS); gary.jones@nuim.ie (GWJ)

Affiliation Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LX YS GWJ. Performed the experiments: LX NH MS JH XZ. Analyzed the data: LX YX SP YS GWJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS GWJ. Wrote the paper: LX SP YS GWJ.