About the Authors

Ana R. Amaral

aramaral@fc.ul.pt

Affiliations Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Gretchen Lovewell

Affiliation Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, United States of America

Maria M. Coelho

Affiliation Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

George Amato

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Howard C. Rosenbaum

Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Ocean Giants Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARA HCR. Performed the experiments: ARA. Analyzed the data: ARA GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL MMC GA HCR. Wrote the paper: ARA.