About the Authors

Sonya T. Dyhrman

sdyhrman@whoi.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bethany D. Jenkins

Contributed equally to this work with: Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Mak A. Saito

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Tatiana A. Rynearson

Contributed equally to this work with: Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Mak A. Saito

Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Mak A. Saito

Contributed equally to this work with: Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Mak A. Saito

Affiliation Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Melissa L. Mercier

Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Harriet Alexander

Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

LeAnn P. Whitney

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Andrea Drzewianowski

Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Vladimir V. Bulygin

Affiliation Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin M. Bertrand

Affiliation Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhijin Wu

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Claudia Benitez-Nelson

Affiliation Marine Science Program, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Abigail Heithoff

Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STD TAR BDJ MAS. Performed the experiments: STD TAR BDJ MAS MM AD LPW AH. Analyzed the data: STD TAR BDJ MAS CBN ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STD TAR BDJ MAS CBN ZW EMB. Wrote the paper: STD TAR BDJ MAS. Designed the study and did the data analysis: LPW HA MM STD TAR BDJ MAS. Performed the culture experiments: MM AD TAR. RNA extractions: BDJ LPW. Conducted proteome extractions, mass spectrometry and data analysis: VVB MAS EMB. Performed additional physiological measurements: STD AH CBN. Ran the ASC: ZW.