About the Authors

Peng Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Aquatic Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, The Ohio State University South Centers, Piketon, OH, United States of America, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Shao-Kui Yi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aquatic Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, The Ohio State University South Centers, Piketon, OH, United States of America

Hong Yao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aquatic Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, The Ohio State University South Centers, Piketon, OH, United States of America

Wei Chi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yan Guo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fisheries Research Institute of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Xu-Fa Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Xu-Fa Ma, Han-Ping Wang

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wang.900@osu.edu (XFM); xufama@mail.hzau.edu.cn (HPW)

Affiliation College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Han-Ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xu-Fa Ma, Han-Ping Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wang.900@osu.edu (XFM); xufama@mail.hzau.edu.cn (HPW)

Affiliation Aquatic Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, The Ohio State University South Centers, Piketon, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.