About the Authors

Marta Coll

martacoll@dal.ca

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Institut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Allison Schmidt

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Tamara Romanuk

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Heike K. Lotze

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AS HKL. Performed the experiments: MC AS. Analyzed the data: MC AS HKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC AS TR HKL. Wrote the paper: MC AS TR HKL.