About the Authors

John P. Wares

jpwares@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

M. Sabrina Pankey

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Fabio Pitombo

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Liza Gómez Daglio

Affiliation School of Natural Science, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Yair Achituv

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW YA. Performed the experiments: JW MSP. Analyzed the data: JW MSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW FP LGD YA. Wrote the paper: JW MSP.