About the Authors

Yong Wang

Affiliations KAUST Global Collaborative Research, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong, University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China

Jiang Ke Yang

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong, University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

On On Lee

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong, University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Tie Gang Li

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Antoine Danchin

Affiliation AMAbiotics, SAS and CEA/Genoscope, Evry, France

Pei-Yuan Qian

boqianpy@ust.hk

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research, Division of Life Sciences, Hong Kong, University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

One of the authors (Antoine Danchin) is employed by an AMAbiotics company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW OOL P-YQ. Performed the experiments: YW JKY TGL. Analyzed the data: YW JKY TGL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA-S TGL P-YQ. Wrote the paper: YW OOL AD P-YQ.