About the Authors

Yaping Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

John Beardall

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia

Kunshan Gao

ksgao@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW KG. Performed the experiments: YW. Analyzed the data: YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW. Wrote the paper: YW JB KG.