About the Authors

Yubo Hou

yhou@wadsworth.org

Current address: Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

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

Huan Zhang

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

Lilibeth Miranda

Current address: AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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

Senjie Lin

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: YH SL. Performed the experiments: YH HZ LNM. Analyzed the data: YH SL. Wrote the paper: YH HZ SL.