About the Authors

Chuanju Dong

Affiliations CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Likun Jiang

Affiliations CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Wenzhu Peng

Affiliations CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Jian Xu

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Shahid Mahboob

Affiliations Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Zoology, GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Khalid A. Al-Ghanim

Affiliation Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Xiaowen Sun

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Peng Xu

xupeng@cafs.ac.cn

Affiliation CAFS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Genomics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Fishery Biotechnology, Centre for Applied Aquatic Genomics, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PX XS. Performed the experiments: CD WP. Analyzed the data: CD LJ JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PX. Wrote the paper: CD PX SM KAG.