About the Authors

Qiang Zheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Rui Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Michal Koblížek

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology CAS, Opatovický mlýn, Třeboň, Czech Republic

Ekaterina N. Boldareva

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology CAS, Opatovický mlýn, Třeboň, Czech Republic

Vladimir Yurkov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Shi Yan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Nianzhi Jiao

jiao@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ RZ MK NJ. Performed the experiments: QZ MK ENB. Analyzed the data: QZ RZ MK VY SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ RZ MK ENB NJ. Wrote the paper: QZ RZ MK VY NJ.