About the Authors

Stephen D. Simpson

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen D. Simpson, Hugo B. Harrison

S.Simpson@exeter.ac.uk

Affiliation Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Hugo B. Harrison

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen D. Simpson, Hugo B. Harrison

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Michel R. Claereboudt

Affiliation Department of Marine Science and Fisheries, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod, Oman

Serge Planes

Affiliations Le Centre de Biologie et d’Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, l’Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, Laboratoire d’Excellence “CORAIL”, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement, Moorea, French Polynesia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDS. Performed the experiments: SDS HBH MC SP. Analyzed the data: SDS HBH MC SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDS HBH MC SP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SDS HBH MC SP.