About the Authors

Xiao Li Shi

Affiliations UPMC (Paris-06) and CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Dominique Marie

Affiliation UPMC (Paris-06) and CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France

Ludwig Jardillier

Current address: Unité d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris Sud 11, Orsay, France

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

David J. Scanlan

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Daniel Vaulot

vaulot@sb-roscoff.fr

Affiliation UPMC (Paris-06) and CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DV. Performed the experiments: XLS DM. Analyzed the data: XLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM LJ DJS. Wrote the paper: XLS DV. Improved final version of manuscript: LJ DJS.