About the Authors

Pedro Cermeño

pedro@uvigo.es

Current address: Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Affiliation Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Colomban de Vargas

Affiliation Station Biologique de Roscoff, Evolution du Plancton et PaléoOcéans, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Roscoff, France

Fátima Abrantes

Affiliation Marine Geology Department, National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), Alfragide, Portugal

Paul G. Falkowski

Affiliations Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC CdV FA PGF. Analyzed the data: PC FA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FA. Wrote the paper: PC FA PGF.