About the Authors

Yi Zhou

yizhou@qdio.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China

Shaojun Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China

Ying Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China

Hongsheng Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YL HSY. Performed the experiments: SJZ YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ SJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: YZ SJZ.