About the Authors

Jialin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jialin Li, Nan Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China

Nan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jialin Li, Nan Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China

Fuchao Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China

Tao Zou

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China

Shuxian Yu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yinchu Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Song Qin

sqin@yic.ac.cn (SQ); gywang@tju.edu.cn (GW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology and Bioresource Utilization, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China

Guangyi Wang

sqin@yic.ac.cn (SQ); gywang@tju.edu.cn (GW)

Affiliations Tianjin University Center for Marine Environmental Ecology, School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, Department of Microbiology, 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: NL SQ FL. Performed the experiments: NL. Analyzed the data: JL GW TZ SY YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NL GW. Revision and software use: GW JL.