About the Authors

Fei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Chen, Yoona Lee, Yanliang Jiang, Shaolin Wang

Affiliations The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Oceanography and Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Yoona Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Chen, Yoona Lee, Yanliang Jiang, Shaolin Wang

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Yanliang Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Chen, Yoona Lee, Yanliang Jiang, Shaolin Wang

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Shaolin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fei Chen, Yoona Lee, Yanliang Jiang, Shaolin Wang

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Eric Peatman

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Jason Abernathy

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Hong Liu

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Shikai Liu

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Huseyin Kucuktas

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Caihuan Ke

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

Zhanjiang Liu

liuzhan@auburn.edu

Affiliation The Fish Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Aquatic Genomics Unit, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CK ZL. Performed the experiments: FC YL YJ. Analyzed the data: FC YL YJ SW EP JA HL SL HK. Wrote the paper: YJ EP.