About the Authors

Evgeniy S. Balakirev

balakire@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok, Russia

Tatiana N. Krupnova

Affiliation Pacific Research Fisheries Centre (TINRO-Centre), Vladivostok, Russia

Francisco J. Ayala

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ESB FJA. Performed the experiments: ESB. Analyzed the data: ESB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ESB TNK FJA. Wrote the paper: ESB FJA.