About the Authors

Yaoguo Li

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Maoxian He

hmx@scsio.ac.cn

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MXH. Performed the experiments: YGL MXH. Analyzed the data: MXH YGL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MXH YGL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: YGL MXH. Reared the pearl oysters and collected the phenotype data: MXH.