About the Authors

Iratxe Montes

Contributed equally to this work with: Iratxe Montes, Darrell Conklin

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain

Darrell Conklin

Contributed equally to this work with: Iratxe Montes, Darrell Conklin

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

Aitor Albaina

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain

Simon Creer

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

Gary R. Carvalho

Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

María Santos

Affiliation AZTI Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Pasaia, Spain

Andone Estonba

andone.estonba@ehu.es

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM DC AA SC GC AE. Performed the experiments: IM DC. Analyzed the data: IM DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM DC AA SC GC MS AE. Wrote the paper: IM DC. Designed and implemented the bioinformatics tools for analysis: DC.