About the Authors

Vanessa K. Michelou

michelou@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

J. Gregory Caporaso

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Argonne National Laboratory, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Rob Knight

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Stephen R. Palumbi

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VKM SRP. Performed the experiments: VKM. Analyzed the data: VKM JGC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VKM SRP JGC RK. Wrote the paper: VKM. Statistical expertise: JGC.