About the Authors

Noelia Estévez-Calvar

Contributed equally to this work with: Noelia Estévez-Calvar, Alejandro Romero

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Vigo, Spain

Alejandro Romero

Contributed equally to this work with: Noelia Estévez-Calvar, Alejandro Romero

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Vigo, Spain

Antonio Figueras

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Vigo, Spain

Beatriz Novoa

virus@iim.csic.es

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (IIM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Vigo, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: AR AF BN. Conceived and designed the experiments: NE AR AF BN. Performed the experiments: NE AR. Analyzed the data: NE AR AF BN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR AF BN. Wrote the paper: NE AR.