About the Authors

Qiang Zheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

Rui Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

Paul C. M. Fogg

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

J. Thomas Beatty

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yu Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

Nianzhi Jiao

jiao@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QZ NJ RZ. Performed the experiments: QZ RZ PF JTB YW. Analyzed the data: QZ PF JTB YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ RZ NJ. Wrote the paper: QZ RZ PF JTB NJ.