About the Authors

Xiaolu Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolu Wang, Danqing Yin

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Marine Bio-Industry Technology of Jiangsu Province, Lian Yungang, China

Danqing Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolu Wang, Danqing Yin

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia

Peng Li

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Marine Bio-Industry Technology of Jiangsu Province, Lian Yungang, China

Shaowu Yin

yinshaowu@hotmail.com

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Marine Bio-Industry Technology of Jiangsu Province, Lian Yungang, China

Li Wang

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Marine Bio-Industry Technology of Jiangsu Province, Lian Yungang, China

Yihe Jia

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Co-Innovation Center for Marine Bio-Industry Technology of Jiangsu Province, Lian Yungang, China

Xinhua Shu

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLW SWY. Performed the experiments: XLW LW SWY. Analyzed the data: XLW DQY SWY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLW PL YHJ XHS. Wrote the paper: XLW SWY XHS.