About the Authors

Yong-Yao Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Yao Yu, Weiguang Kong

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Weiguang Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Yao Yu, Weiguang Kong

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ya-Xing Yin

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fen Dong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhen-Yu Huang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Guang-Mei Yin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Shuai Dong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Irene Salinas

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yong-An Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhen Xu

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

zhenxu@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.