About the Authors

Monica Favnebøe Solberg

monica.solberg@imr.no

Affiliation Population genetics research group, Institute of Marine Research, Nordnes, Bergen, Norway

Per Gunnar Fjelldal

Affiliation Reproduction and development biology research group, Matre Research Station, Institute of Marine Research, Matredal, Norway

Frank Nilsen

Affiliation Sea lice Research Centre, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Kevin Alan Glover

Affiliations Population genetics research group, Institute of Marine Research, Nordnes, Bergen, Norway, Sea lice Research Centre, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFS PGF FN KAG. Performed the experiments: MFS PGF KAG. Analyzed the data: MFS PGF FN KAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFS PGF FN KAG. Wrote the paper: MFS PGF FN KAG.