About the Authors

Shuyang Sun

Affiliation Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Staffan Kjelleberg

Affiliations Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Diane McDougald

D.McDougald@unsw.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Water Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SK DM. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS SK DM. Wrote the paper: SS DM.