About the Authors

Yung-Che Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Che Tseng, Ruo-Dong Chen

Affiliations Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences, IFM-GEOMAR, Biological Oceanography, Kiel, Germany

Ruo-Dong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Che Tseng, Ruo-Dong Chen

Affiliations Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan, Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Magnus Lucassen

Affiliation Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Maike M. Schmidt

Affiliation Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Ralf Dringen

Affiliation Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Doris Abele

Affiliation Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Pung-Pung Hwang

pphwang@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-CT R-DC. Performed the experiments: Y-CT R-DC MMS. Analyzed the data: Y-CT R-DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-CT R-DC ML. Wrote the paper: Y-CT R-DC. Organized the whole project and manuscript: P-PH. Organized part of the project and revised the whole manuscript: DA. Designed and conducted the major experiments and the data analysis: RDC.