*Kathrine Xin Yee Tan^1,2, Shuji Shigenobu^1,2 (1. Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) (Japan), 2. Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, National Institute for Basic Biology (Japan))

*Steve Perlman¹ (1. University of Victoria (Canada))

*Yayun Wang¹, Ryuichi Koga¹, Kohei Oguchi², Takahiro Hosokawa³, Naruo Nikoh⁴, Minoru Moriyama¹, Takema Fukatsu¹ (1. Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba (Japan), 2. Misaki Marine Biological Station, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Misaki (Japan), 3. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu (Japan), 4. Department of Nature and Environment, Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan, Chiba (Japan))

*Jeffrey Barrick¹ (1. The University of Texas at Austin (United States of America))

*Guan Hong Wang¹ (1. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. *: Correspondence to Guan-Hong Wang (ghwang@ioz.ac.cn) (China))

*Brittany Peterson¹, Emma Chilcoat¹, Jordan Robinson¹, Alyssa Culver¹, Hillary Mann¹ (1. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (United States of America))

*Inès Pons¹, Christine Henzler¹, Christiane Emmerich¹, Marleny García-Lozano¹, Hassan Salem¹ (1. Max Planck Institute for Biology (Germany))