About the Authors

Bao-cun Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jian Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Li Sun

lsun@qdio.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS. Performed the experiments: BCZ JZ. Analyzed the data: BCZ JZ. Wrote the paper: LS BCZ.