About the Authors
- Maria Vittoria Modica
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Affiliations Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy, Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
- Nicolas Puillandre
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Affiliation Département Systématique et Evolution, “Systématique, Adaptation et Evolution”, UMR 7138, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 26, Paris, France
- Magalie Castelin
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Affiliations Département Systématique et Evolution, “Systématique, Adaptation et Evolution”, UMR 7138, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 26, Paris, France, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
- Yu Zhang
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Affiliation Ernst & Young, New York, New York, United States of America
- Mandë Holford
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* E-mail: mholford@hunter.cuny.edu
Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
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Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MVM NP. Performed the experiments: MVM NP MC. Analyzed the data: MVM NP MC YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH. Wrote the paper: MVM NP MC MH YZ. Conducted fieldwork to collected specimens: MVM MH MC NP.