About the Authors

Yi Gong

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Xiaoyuan Wei

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Wanwei Sun

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Xin Ren

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Jiao Chen

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Jude Juventus Aweya

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Hongyu Ma

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Kok-Gan Chan

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yueling Zhang

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

zhangyl@stu.edu.cn (YZ); lisk@stu.edu.cn (SL)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Shengkang Li

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

zhangyl@stu.edu.cn (YZ); lisk@stu.edu.cn (SL)

Affiliations Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biology, Shantou University, Shantou, China, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.