About the Authors

Courtney D. Kozul-Horvath

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Fokko Zandbergen

Affiliation Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian P. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Richard I. Enelow

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Joshua W. Hamilton

jhamilton@mbl.edu

Affiliation Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CDK-H FZ RIE JWH. Performed the experiments: CDK-H FZ BPJ. Analyzed the data: CDK-H FZ BPJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BPJ. Wrote the paper: CDK-H.