About the Authors

Yubo Hou

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Senjie Lin

senjie.lin@uconn.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL. Performed the experiments: YH. Analyzed the data: YH SL. Wrote the paper: YH SL.