About the Authors

Phaedra Doukakis

pdoukakis@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Ellen K. Pikitch

Affiliation Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Anna Rothschild

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Rob DeSalle

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

George Amato

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

RD and S-OK are PLoS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not, however, alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD EKP RD S-OK. Performed the experiments: PD AR S-OK. Analyzed the data: PD AR S-OK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD RD GA S-OK. Wrote the paper: PD EKP RD S-OK.