About the Authors

Zhiqiang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Xu, Jiaping Chen

zhiqiangx@163.com (ZX); xuxiaofeng@njnu.edu.cn (XX)

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Jiaping Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Xu, Jiaping Chen

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xuguang Li

Affiliation Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Jiachun Ge

Affiliation Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Jianlin Pan

Affiliation Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Xiaofeng Xu

zhiqiangx@163.com (ZX); xuxiaofeng@njnu.edu.cn (XX)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX JC XX. Performed the experiments: ZX JC. Analyzed the data: ZX JC XL JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZX JP XX. Wrote the paper: ZX JC XX.