About the Authors

Nadine Ziemert

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheila Podell

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kevin Penn

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jonathan H. Badger

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Eric Allen

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paul R. Jensen

pjensen@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ SP KP EA PJ. Performed the experiments: NZ SP KP. Analyzed the data: NZ SP KP JB EA PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ SP KP JB EA PJ. Wrote the paper: NZ PJ.