About the Authors

Lars A. Hamre

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars A. Hamre, Christiane Eichner, Christopher Marlowe A. Caipang

Affiliation Sea Lice Research Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Christiane Eichner

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars A. Hamre, Christiane Eichner, Christopher Marlowe A. Caipang

Affiliation Sea Lice Research Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Christopher Marlowe A. Caipang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lars A. Hamre, Christiane Eichner, Christopher Marlowe A. Caipang

Affiliation Aquatic pathogens and diseases, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Sussie T. Dalvin

Affiliations Sea Lice Research Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Aquatic pathogens and diseases, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

James E. Bron

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Frank Nilsen

Affiliation Sea Lice Research Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Geoff Boxshall

Affiliation Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Rasmus Skern-Mauritzen

rasmus@imr.no

Affiliation Aquatic pathogens and diseases, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAH CE JB RSM. Performed the experiments: LAH CE CMAC SD RSM. Analyzed the data: LAH CE RSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FN RSM. Wrote the manuscript: LAH CE CMAC RSM GB.