About the Authors

Caroline V. Palmer

caroline.palmer@jcu.edu.au

Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Nikki G. Traylor-Knowles

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bette L. Willis

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

John C. Bythell

Affiliation School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CVP NTK. Performed the experiments: CVP NTK. Analyzed the data: CVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLW. Wrote the paper: CVP JCB BLW.