Acknowledgement
We are grateful to anonymous reviewer for the detailed comments and Prof. K. Y. Kim for many constructive suggestions to improve the manuscript. This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2021R1I1A2059577), by the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries (Marine Biotics Project, 20210469), and by the National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea (the management of Marine Fishery Bio-resources Center 2024) to Tae Oh Cho. This research was also supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2021R1I1A1A01051909) to Boo Yeon Won.
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