About the Authors

Bobette R. Dickerson

Bobette.Dickerson@noaa.gov

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Research Laboratory, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rolf R. Ream

Affiliation Molecular Ecology Research Laboratory, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sacha N. Vignieri

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Bentzen

Affiliation Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BRD RRR PB. Performed the experiments: BRD RRR. Analyzed the data: BRD RRR SNV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRD RRR PB. Wrote the paper: BRD RRR SNV.