About the Authors

Ahmed Moustafa

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Jeannette E. Loram

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Jeannette E. Loram

Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Jeannette E. Loram

Affiliation Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George's, Bermuda

Jeremiah D. Hackett

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Donald M. Anderson

Affiliation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

F. Gerald Plumley

Affiliation Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George's, Bermuda

Debashish Bhattacharya

debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM JH DA FGP DB. Performed the experiments: AM JEL. Analyzed the data: AM JEL JH FGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM DB. Wrote the paper: AM DB.