About the Authors

Stephen N. Carmichael

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen N. Carmichael, Michaël Bekaert

snc2@stir.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Michaël Bekaert

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen N. Carmichael, Michaël Bekaert

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

John B. Taggart

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Hayden R. L. Christie

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

David I. Bassett

Affiliation Marine Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Stirling, Machrihanish, Argyll, United Kingdom

James E. Bron

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Philip J. Skuce

Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, Midlothian, United Kingdom

Karim Gharbi

Affiliation GenePool, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Rasmus Skern-Mauritzen

Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Armin Sturm

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS JEB RS-M JBT KG PJS MB SNC. Performed the experiments: SNC HRLC DIB. Analyzed the data: SNC MB AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DIB. Wrote the manuscript: AS JEB MB SNC.