About the Authors

Chuanju Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanju Dong, Lin Chen

Affiliations College of Fishery, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, China, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Lin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chuanju Dong, Lin Chen

Affiliations College of Fishery, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, China, Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Jingyan Feng

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China, 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

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 Al-Ghanim

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

Xuejun Li

Affiliation College of Fishery, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, China

Peng Xu

xupeng77@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliations Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 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

Conceptualization: PX. Data curation: CD LC. Formal analysis: CD LC. Funding acquisition: PX SM KAG. Investigation: CD LC JX JF. Methodology: CD LC. Project administration: PX. Resources: PX SM KAG. Software: LC XL. Supervision: PX. Validation: CD LC. Visualization: CD LC. Writing – original draft: CD JF PX. Writing – review & editing: CD LC PX.