About the Authors

Luciana F. Santoferrara

luciana.santoferrara@uconn.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Stephanie Guida

Affiliation The National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Huan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

George B. McManus

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBM HZ. Performed the experiments: GBM HZ. Analyzed the data: LFS SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GBM HZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LFS SG HZ GBM.