About the Authors

Shatavia S. Morrison

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Tiffany Williams

Affiliation Department of Biology, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Aurora Cain

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Brett Froelich

Affiliation Department of Biology, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Casey Taylor

Affiliation Department of Biology, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Craig Baker-Austin

Affiliation Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

David Verner-Jeffreys

Affiliation Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

Rachel Hartnell

Affiliation Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

James D. Oliver

Affiliation Department of Biology, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Cynthia J. Gibas

cgibas@uncc.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJG CB-A JDO. Performed the experiments: SSM RH DV-J. Analyzed the data: SSM AC BF TW CT JDO CB-A CJG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC BF JDO CB-A CJG. Wrote the paper: SSM AC BF TW CT JDO CB-A CJG.