About the Authors

Tracy A. Villareal

t.villareal@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliation Marine Science Institute and the Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas, United States of America

Colbi G. Brown

Affiliation Marine Science Institute and the Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas, United States of America

Mark A. Brzezinski

Affiliations Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Krause

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Cara Wilson

Affiliation Environmental Research Division, NOAA/NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAV CW MAB. Performed the experiments: CB JWK. Analyzed the data: TAV CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWK MAB CW CB TAV. Wrote the paper: TAV CW. Reviewed and approved the ms: TAV MAB CW JWK CB.