About the Authors

Weipeng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Weipeng Zhang, Salim Bougouffa

Affiliation KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Salim Bougouffa

Contributed equally to this work with: Weipeng Zhang, Salim Bougouffa

Affiliation KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Yong Wang

Affiliations KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, Sanya Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, San Ya, Hai Nan, China

On On Lee

Affiliation KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Jiangke Yang

Affiliation KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Colin Chan

Affiliation KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

Xingyu Song

Affiliation Sanya Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, San Ya, Hai Nan, China

Pei-Yuan Qian

boqianpy@ust.hk

Affiliations KAUST Global Partnership Program, Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, Sanya Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, San Ya, Hai Nan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PYQ OOL YW. Performed the experiments: SB JY XS. Analyzed the data: WZ OOL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB. Wrote the paper: WZ OOL PYQ CC.