About the Authors

Li-Sheng He

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ying Xu

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Kiyotaka Matsumura

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yu Zhang

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Gen Zhang

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Shu-Hua Qi

Affiliation South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China

Pei-Yuan Qian

boqianpy@ust.hk

Affiliation KAUST Global Collaborative Research Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSH YX KM. Performed the experiments: LSH YX. Analyzed the data: LSH GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LSH YZ GZ. Wrote the paper: LSH SHQ PYQ.