About the Authors

Sung-Yin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung-Yin Yang, Shashank Keshavmurthy

Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan

Shashank Keshavmurthy

Contributed equally to this work with: Sung-Yin Yang, Shashank Keshavmurthy

Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan

David Obura

Affiliations Coastal Ocean Research and Development Indian Ocean (CORDIO), Mombasa, Kenya, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Charles R. C. Sheppard

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Shakil Visram

Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Coastal Ocean Research and Development Indian Ocean (CORDIO), Mombasa, Kenya

Chaolun Allen Chen

cac@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAC CS DO. Performed the experiments: SY SK. Analyzed the data: SY SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAC DO CS SV. Wrote the paper: SK SY CAC. Collection of coral samples in Chagos Archipelago: CS.