About the Authors

Marcelo V. Kitahara

mvkitahara@yahoo.com.br

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs Studies and Coral Genomics Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Stephen D. Cairns

Affiliation Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Jarosław Stolarski

Affiliation Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Science, Twarda, Warsaw, Poland

David Blair

Affiliation School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

David J. Miller

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs Studies and Coral Genomics Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVK DJM. Performed the experiments: MVK. Analyzed the data: MVK SDC DB DJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDC DJM. Wrote the paper: MVK SDC JS DB DJM. Identified the specimens: MVK SDC.