About the Authors

Yinnan Mu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Mingyu Li, Feng Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetics and Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China

Mingyu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Mingyu Li, Feng Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetics and Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China

Feng Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Yinnan Mu, Mingyu Li, Feng Ding

Affiliations The CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Yang Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetics and Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China

Jingqun Ao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetics and Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China

Songnian Hu

husn@big.ac.cn (SNH); Chenxinh@tom.com (XHC)

Affiliation The CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xinhua Chen

husn@big.ac.cn (SNH); Chenxinh@tom.com (XHC)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetics and Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China, Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XHC JQA SNH. Performed the experiments: YNM FD YD. Analyzed the data: FD YNM MYL. Wrote the paper: YNM MYL JQA XHC.