About the Authors

Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff

bachvarofft@si.edu

Current address: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Allen R. Place

Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRB AP. Performed the experiments: TRB. Analyzed the data: TRB AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP. Wrote the paper: TRB AP.