About the Authors

Patrick J. Keeling

pkeeling@mail.ubc.ca (PJK); azworden@mbari.org (AZW)

Affiliations Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, Canada

Fabien Burki

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Heather M. Wilcox

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Bassem Allam

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Eric E. Allen

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Linda A. Amaral-Zettler

Affiliations The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

E. Virginia Armbrust

Affiliation School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

John M. Archibald

Affiliations Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, Canada, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Arvind K. Bharti

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

Callum J. Bell

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

Bank Beszteri

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Kay D. Bidle

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Connor T. Cameron

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

Lisa Campbell

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

David A. Caron

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Rose Ann Cattolico

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jackie L. Collier

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Kathryn Coyne

Affiliation University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Lewes, Delaware, United States of America

Simon K. Davy

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Phillipe Deschamps

Affiliation Unité d'Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, CNRS UMR8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Sonya T. Dyhrman

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Bente Edvardsen

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Ruth D. Gates

Affiliation Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States of America

Christopher J. Gobler

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Spencer J. Greenwood

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and AVC Lobster Science Centre, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Stephanie M. Guida

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

Jennifer L. Jacobi

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

Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Erick R. James

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bethany Jenkins

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America

Uwe John

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Matthew D. Johnson

Affiliation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew R. Juhl

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Anja Kamp

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Jacobs University Bremen, Molecular Life Science Research Center, Bremen, Germany

Laura A. Katz

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald Kiene

Affiliation University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Alexander Kudryavtsev

Affiliations Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Brian S. Leander

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Senjie Lin

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

Connie Lovejoy

Affiliation Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Denis Lynn

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Adrian Marchetti

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

George McManus

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

Aurora M. Nedelcu

Affiliation University of New Brunswick, Department of Biology, Fredericton, New Brusnswick, Canada

Susanne Menden-Deuer

Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America

Cristina Miceli

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

Thomas Mock

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Marina Montresor

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Mary Ann Moran

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Shauna Murray

Affiliation Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Govind Nadathur

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Satoshi Nagai

Affiliation National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Kanagawa, Japan

Peter B. Ngam

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

Brian Palenik

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jan Pawlowski

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Giulio Petroni

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Gwenael Piganeau

Affiliations CNRS, UMR 7232, BIOM, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, BIOM, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

Matthew C. Posewitz

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Karin Rengefors

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Giovanna Romano

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Mary E. Rumpho

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Tatiana Rynearson

Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America

Kelly B. Schilling

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

Declan C. Schroeder

Affiliation The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Alastair G. B. Simpson

Affiliations Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, Canada, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Claudio H. Slamovits

Affiliations Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, Canada, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

David R. Smith

Affiliation University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

G. Jason Smith

Affiliation Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Sarah R. Smith

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Heidi M. Sosik

Affiliation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Stief

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Edward Theriot

Affiliation Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Scott N. Twary

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Biosciences, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Pooja E. Umale

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

Daniel Vaulot

Affiliation UMR714, CNRS and UPMC (Paris-06), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France

Boris Wawrik

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Glen L. Wheeler

Affiliations The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

William H. Wilson

Affiliation NCMA, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Yan Xu

Affiliation Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Adriana Zingone

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Alexandra Z. Worden

pkeeling@mail.ubc.ca (PJK); azworden@mbari.org (AZW)

Affiliations Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, Canada, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.