About the Authors

Greta S. Aeby

Contributed equally to this work with: Greta S. Aeby, Gareth J. Williams

greta@hawaii.edu (GSA); gareth@ucsd.edu (GJW)

Affiliation Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Gareth J. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Greta S. Aeby, Gareth J. Williams

greta@hawaii.edu (GSA); gareth@ucsd.edu (GJW)

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Erik C. Franklin

Affiliation Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Jessica Haapkyla

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

C. Drew Harvell

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Stephen Neale

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Cathie A. Page

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Laurie Raymundo

Affiliation University of Guam Marine Lab, University of Guam (UOG) Station, Mangilao, Guam

Bernardo Vargas-Ángel

Affiliation University of Hawaii, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Bette L. Willis

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Thierry M. Work

Affiliation U. S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Honolulu Field Station, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Simon K. Davy

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSA GJW ECF CDH SKD. Performed the experiments: GSA GJW ECF JH SN CAP LR BLW BV-A TMW. Analyzed the data: GSA GJW ECF. Wrote the paper: GSA GJW ECF JH SN CAP LR BLW BV-A TMW CDG SKD.