About the Authors

Wei Li

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

Kunshan Gao

ksgao@xmu.edu.cn

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

John Beardall

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSG. Performed the experiments: WL. Analyzed the data: WL KSG JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL. Wrote the paper: WL KSG JB.