About the Authors

Sheila Podell

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Juan A. Ugalde

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Priya Narasingarao

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jillian F. Banfield

Affiliations Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Karla B. Heidelberg

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eric E. Allen

eallen@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP JAU JFB KBH EEA. Performed the experiments: SP JAU PN JFB KBH EEA. Analyzed the data: SP JAU PN EEA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP JAU EEA. Wrote the paper: SP JAU EEA. Designed the software used in analysis: SP JAU.