About the Authors

Jie Xiong

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xingyi Lu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhemin Zhou

Affiliation Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Yue Chang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Dongxia Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Miao Tian

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhigang Zhou

Affiliation Feed Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lei Wang

Affiliation Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Chengjie Fu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Eduardo Orias

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Wei Miao

miaowei530@yeah.net; miaowei@ihb.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM JX. Performed the experiments: JX ZMZ WM CF LW XL DY ZGZ MT YC. Analyzed the data: JX ZMZ WM CF LW XL DY ZGZ MT YC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX ZMZ WM. Wrote the paper: WM EO JX. Generated isogenic mating type V and VI strains: EO.