About the Authors

Emily G. Notch

emily.notch@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America

Joseph R. Shaw

Affiliations Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America, The School of Public and Environmental Affairs and The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Bonita A. Coutermarsh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Marisa Dzioba

Affiliation Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America

Bruce A. Stanton

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EGN JRS BAS. Performed the experiments: EGN BAC MD. Analyzed the data: EGN JRS BAS. Wrote the paper: EGN JRS BAS.