About the Authors

Mirco Carella

Affiliation Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés Cala St Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Spain

Gemma Agell

Affiliation Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés Cala St Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Spain

Paco Cárdenas

Affiliations Département Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7208 “BOrEA”, Paris, France, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Division of Pharmacognosy, BioMedical Centre, Husargatan 3, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden

Maria J. Uriz

Iosune@ceab.csic.es

Affiliation Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés Cala St Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes (Girona), Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJU. Performed the experiments: MC GA. Analyzed the data: MC GA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJU PC. Wrote the paper: MJU MC PC GA. Sampling: MJU PC. Laboratory work: MC GA. Phylogenetic reconstructions: MC. Data interpretation: MC MJU PC.