About the Authors

Andrew D. Foote

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Foote, Philip Francis Thomsen

footead@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Philip Francis Thomsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew D. Foote, Philip Francis Thomsen

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Signe Sveegaard

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Magnus Wahlberg

Affiliations Fjord&Bælt, Kerteminde, Denmark, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark, Kerteminde, Denmark

Jos Kielgast

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Line A. Kyhn

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Andreas B. Salling

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anders Galatius

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Ludovic Orlando

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

Ludovic Orlando and Tom Gilbert are PLoS ONE editorial board members. Magnus Walhberg is an employee of a commercial company, Fjord&Baelt. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADF PFT LO MTPG. Performed the experiments: ADF SS MW ABS AG. Analyzed the data: ADF PFT JK LK SS ABS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LK SS MTPG. Wrote the paper: ADF PFT LK JK SS MW ABS AG LO MTPG.