About the Authors

Andrew R. Thurber

athurber@coas.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

William J. Jones

Affiliation Environmental Genomics Core Facility, Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Kareen Schnabel

Affiliation National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ART. Performed the experiments: ART KS WJJ. Analyzed the data: ART KS WJJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ART KS WJJ. Wrote the paper: ART KS WJJ.