About the Authors

Jing Ge

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Lee Ann Woodward

Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Reefs NWRC, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Qing X. Li

qingl@hawaii.edu (QL); wangjun@wbgcas.cn (JW)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jun Wang

qingl@hawaii.edu (QL); wangjun@wbgcas.cn (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG LW QL JW. Performed the experiments: JG JW. Analyzed the data: JG JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG JW. Wrote the paper: JG. Collecting samples: LW.