About the Authors

Yi Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhangyi@jamstec.go.jp

Affiliation SUGAR Program, X-star, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Takuro Nunoura

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Bioscience and Nanoscience, Research Institute for Marine Resources Utilization, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Daisuke Nishiura

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Center for Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Miho Hirai

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation SUGAR Program, X-star, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Shigeru Shimamura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation SUGAR Program, X-star, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Kanako Kurosawa

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SUGAR Program, X-star, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Chieko Ishiwata

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Center for Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Shigeru Deguchi

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Bioscience and Nanoscience, Research Institute for Marine Resources Utilization, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: [YZ and TN are inventors on a pending patent (Name: methods of obtaining the digestion efficiency of nucleases; Application number: 2019-232639) related to this work.] This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.