About the Authors

Rowena F. Stern

rstern71@yahoo.com

Affiliation The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ales Horak

Affiliation The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rose L. Andrew

Affiliation The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mary-Alice Coffroth

Affiliation Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Robert A. Andersen

Affiliation Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Frithjof C. Küpper

Affiliation Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom

Ian Jameson

Affiliation Australian National Algae Culture Collection, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia

Mona Hoppenrath

Affiliation Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB), Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Benoît Véron

Affiliations Algobank-Caen, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

Fumai Kasai

Affiliation National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

Jerry Brand

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Erick R. James

Affiliation The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Patrick J. Keeling

Affiliation The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RFS PJK. Performed the experiments: RFS MAC ERJ. Analyzed the data: RFS AH RA MAC FCK IJ MH ERJ PJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH RA MAC RAA FCK IJ MH BV FK JB PJK. Wrote the paper: RFS PJK. Contributed to manuscript preparation: AH RA MAC FCK RAA IJ MH BV FK JB. Established cultures: MAC MH. Contributed to collective acquisition of cultures: RAA. Contributed to interpretation of results: RAA IJ MH. Contributed to preparation of materials: IJ.