About the Authors

Terry Fei Fan Ng

Current address: Blood Systems Research Institute and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Dana L. Willner

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yan Wei Lim

Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Robert Schmieder

Affiliation Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Betty Chau

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Christina Nilsson

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Simon Anthony

Affiliation Wildlife Disease Labs, San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, California, United States of America

Yijun Ruan

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Forest Rohwer

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Mya Breitbart

mya@marine.usf.edu

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TFFN DLW BC FR MB. Performed the experiments: TFFN DLW YWL BC SA. Analyzed the data: TFFN DLW YWL RS CN YR FR MB. Wrote the paper: TFFN DLW YWL FW MB.