About the Authors

Katherine F. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Victor Schmidt

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gail E. Rosen

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Columbia University Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Linda Amaral-Zettler

amaral@mbl.edu

Affiliations The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KFS LAZ GER VS. Performed the experiments: GER VS. Analyzed the data: LAZ VS KSF GER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KFS LAZ. Wrote the paper: KFS LAZ VS.