About the Authors

Thomas Swierts

Affiliations Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg

Affiliations Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christiaan de Leeuw

Affiliations Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Daniel F. R. Cleary

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia, CESAM, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Christine Hörnlein

Affiliation Yerseke Marine Microbiology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, The Netherlands

Edwin Setiawan

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Gert Wörheide

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, München, Germany

Dirk Erpenbeck

Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Nicole J. de Voogd

nicole.devoogd@naturalis.nl

Affiliation Marine Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NdV DC KP. Performed the experiments: TS CL CH ES NdV. Analyzed the data: TS CL DC KP ES DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS KP CL DC CH ES GW DE NdV. Wrote the manuscript: TS KP CL DC CH ES GW DE NdV.