About the Authors

Maria Pia Miglietta

miglietm@tamug.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M at Galveston, Galveston, TX, 77553, United States of America

Dean Odegard

Affiliation University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, United States of America

Baptiste Faure

Current address: Service Recherche et Développement, Biotope, Mèze, France

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Ecologie Marine, Université de la Réunion, St Denis, La Réunion, France

Anuschka Faucci

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPM. Performed the experiments: MPM BF AF DO. Analyzed the data: MPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPM AF BF. Wrote the paper: MPM AF.