About the Authors

David Bass

d.bass@nhm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Akinori Yabuki

Current address: Marine Biodiversity Research Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sébastien Santini

Affiliation Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, CNRS, UMR 7256, Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Sarah Romac

Affiliation CNRS, UMR 7144, Equipe Evolution du Plancton et Paleo-Oceans, Roscoff, France

Cédric Berney

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB CB. Performed the experiments: DB AY CB. Analyzed the data: CB DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB. Wrote the paper: DB CB. Contributed to preparation and analysis of Biomarks total database: SS. Coordinated overall Biomarks sampling and sequence generation: SR.