About the Authors

Maria Vittoria Modica

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

Affiliation Département Systématique et Evolution, “Systématique, Adaptation et Evolution”, UMR 7138, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 26, Paris, France

Magalie Castelin

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

Affiliation Ernst & Young, New York, New York, United States of America

Mandë Holford

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.