About the Authors

Ben Temperton

btemperton@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Jack A. Gilbert

Affiliations Institute of Genomic and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John P. Quinn

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

John W. McGrath

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT. Performed the experiments: BT. Analyzed the data: BT JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BT JAG JPQ JWM. Wrote the paper: BT JAG JPQ JWM. Designed the software used in analysis: BT.