About the Authors

Jonnell C. Sanciangco

jsanc005@odu.edu

Affiliations Marine Biodiversity Unit/Global Marine Species Assessment, Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Kent E. Carpenter

Affiliations Marine Biodiversity Unit/Global Marine Species Assessment, Global Species Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Peter J. Etnoyer

Affiliation NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Fabio Moretzsohn

Affiliation Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KEC JCS. Performed the experiments: JCS. Analyzed the data: JCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCS KEC PJE FM. Wrote the paper: KEC JCS.