About the Authors

Kai Tang

tangkai@xmu.edu.cn (KT); jiao@xmu.edu.cn (NJ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Keshao Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Nianzhi Jiao

tangkai@xmu.edu.cn (KT); jiao@xmu.edu.cn (NJ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Yao Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

Affiliation Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT NZJ. Performed the experiments: KT KSL. Analyzed the data: KT CTC YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJZ KT. Wrote the manuscript: KT YZ NZJ.