About the Authors

Brian Hunt

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Hunt, Jan Strugnell

bhunt@eos.ubc.ca (BH); J.Strugnell@latrobe.edu.au (JS)

Affiliation Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jan Strugnell

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Hunt, Jan Strugnell

bhunt@eos.ubc.ca (BH); J.Strugnell@latrobe.edu.au (JS)

Affiliation Department of Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

Nina Bednarsek

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Katrin Linse

Affiliation British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

R. John Nelson

Affiliation Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

Evgeny Pakhomov

Affiliation Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brad Seibel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Dirk Steinke

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Laura Würzberg

Affiliation Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPVH JS. Performed the experiments: BPVH JS. Analyzed the data: JS. Wrote the paper: BPVH. Contributed to direct funding of research: BPVH JS. Contributed to sample collection: BPVH NB KL JN EP BS LW. Contributed to revision and critical appraisal of the manuscript: JS NB KL JN EP BS DS LW. Approved final version of the manuscript: JS NB KL JN EP BS DS LW. Contributed to analysis of data: DS.