About the Authors

Xiang Zhang

Affiliations The Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Global Change, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Yong Mao

Affiliation College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Zixia Huang

Affiliation College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Meng Qu

Affiliations The Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Global Change, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Jun Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Shaoxiong Ding

sxding@xmu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, The Laboratory of Marine Biodiversity and Global Change, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Jingni Hong

Affiliation College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Tiantian Sun

Affiliation College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ YM JH SD. Performed the experiments: XZ MQ JH TS. Analyzed the data: XZ ZH MQ JC SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ YM ZH JC JH. Wrote the paper: XZ MQ JC SD. Wrote the PERL scripts used in analysis: XZ ZH JC.