About the Authors

Sofie Derycke

s.derycke@ugent.be

Affiliations Marine Biology Research Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Centrum for Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Vanaverbeke

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Annelien Rigaux

Affiliations Marine Biology Research Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Centrum for Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Thierry Backeljau

Affiliations Joint Experimental Molecular Unit, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Tom Moens

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD. Performed the experiments: SD JV AR. Analyzed the data: SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD TB TM. Wrote the paper: SD TB TM.