About the Authors

Maura Manganelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Maura Manganelli, Francesca Malfatti

maura.manganelli@ispesl.it (MM); fmalfatt@ucsd.edu (FM)

Affiliation Istituto Superiore per la Prevenzione e la Sicurezza del Lavoro (ISPESL) - DIPIA, Monteporzio Catone (RM), Italy

Francesca Malfatti

Contributed equally to this work with: Maura Manganelli, Francesca Malfatti

maura.manganelli@ispesl.it (MM); fmalfatt@ucsd.edu (FM)

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

Ty J. Samo

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

B. Greg Mitchell

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

Haili Wang

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

Farooq Azam

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 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: MM FM FA. Performed the experiments: MM FM TJS BGM HW. Analyzed the data: MM FM BGM HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BGM FA. Wrote the paper: MM FM FA.