About the Authors

Yun-Ming Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Ming Zhang, Hui Chen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hui Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Ming Zhang, Hui Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Chen-Liu He

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Qiang Wang

wangqiang@ihb.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QW HC Y-MZ. Performed the experiments: HC Y-MZ C-LH. Analyzed the data: QW HC Y-MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW. Wrote the paper: QW HC Y-MZ.