About the Authors

Laura D. Mydlarz

Mydlarz@UTA.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Sally F. Holthouse

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Esther C. Peters

Affiliation Tetra Tech, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

C. Drew Harvell

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH LM EP. Performed the experiments: LM SH. Analyzed the data: CH LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH LM. Wrote the paper: CH LM EP.