About the Authors

Naomi F. Montalvo

Contributed equally to this work with: Naomi F. Montalvo, Jeanette Davis

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jeanette Davis

Contributed equally to this work with: Naomi F. Montalvo, Jeanette Davis

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jan Vicente

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Raquel Pittiglio

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Russell T. Hill

hill@umces.edu

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RTH NM. Performed the experiments: NM JD JV RP JR. Analyzed the data: NM JD JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR. Wrote the paper: NM JD RTH.