About the Authors

Nick I. Kelly

Contributed equally to this work with: Nick I. Kelly, Abdullah Alzaid

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Abdullah Alzaid

Contributed equally to this work with: Nick I. Kelly, Abdullah Alzaid

Current address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Gordon W. Nash

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

A. Kurt Gamperl

kgamperl@mun.ca

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NIK AA AKG. Performed the experiments: NIK AA GWN AKG. Analyzed the data: NIK AA GWN AKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKG. Wrote the paper: NIK AA GWN AKG.