About the Authors

Pei-Luen Jiang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Marine Biotechnology, National Dong-Hwa University, Pingtung, Taiwan, Taiwan Coral Research Center, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan

Buntora Pasaribu

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chii-Shiarng Chen

cchen@nmmba.gov.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Marine Biotechnology, National Dong-Hwa University, Pingtung, Taiwan, Taiwan Coral Research Center, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan, Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PLJ CSC. Performed the experiments: PLJ BP. Analyzed the data: PLJ CSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PLJ CSC. Wrote the paper: CSC PLJ.