About the Authors

Shuang Xia

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Qi Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Huan Zhu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yingyin Cheng

Affiliation Center for Water Envionment and Human Health, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Guoxiang Liu

liugx@ihb.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Zhengyu Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL ZH. Performed the experiments: SX QZ HZ GL. Analyzed the data: SX YC. Wrote the paper: SX GL.