About the Authors

Yuyi Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Lee Ann Woodward

Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Reefs NWRC, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Qing X. Li

qingl@hawaii.edu (QXL); wangjun@wbgcas.cn (JW)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jun Wang

qingl@hawaii.edu (QXL); wangjun@wbgcas.cn (JW)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAW JW QXL. Performed the experiments: YY LAW JW. Analyzed the data: JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAW JW QXL. Wrote the paper: YY JW QXL.