About the Authors

Yingli Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingli Shi, Marcus Soderlund

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Marcus Soderlund

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingli Shi, Marcus Soderlund

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jianhai Xiang

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

Yuanan Lu

yuanan@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, 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: YL YLS MS. Performed the experiments: MS YLS. Analyzed the data: MS YLS YL JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: MS YLS JX YL.