About the Authors

Sean McCann

smmccann@sfu.ca

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Onour Moeri

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Tanya Jones

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Catherine Scott

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Grigori Khaskin

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Regine Gries

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Sean O'Donnell

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gerhard Gries

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM GG TJ OM SO. Performed the experiments: SM OM TJ CS RG GK. Analyzed the data: RG SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK. Wrote the paper: SM GG CS SO.