About the Authors

Yushanthini Nair Kumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sze-Wan Poong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Claire Gachon

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom, Unité Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes, UMR 7245, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France

Juliet Brodie

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Ahemad Sade

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Fisheries Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Phaik-Eem Lim

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

phaikeem@um.edu.my

Affiliation Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no potential competing interests exist.