About the Authors

Virginia L. Winder

vlw3056@uncw.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven D. Emslie

Affiliation Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VLW SDE. Performed the experiments: VLW. Analyzed the data: VLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VLW SDE. Wrote the paper: VLW SDE.