About the Authors

Sabine Gollner

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Gollner, Heiko Stuckas

sabine.gollner@senckenberg.de

Affiliations German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Ocean Systems Sciences (OCS), 't Horntje, Texel, The Netherlands

Heiko Stuckas

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Gollner, Heiko Stuckas

Affiliation Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany

Terue C. Kihara

Affiliation German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Stefan Laurent

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland

Sahar Kodami

Affiliation German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Pedro Martinez Arbizu

Affiliation German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SG PMA HS SL. Data curation: SG HS. Formal analysis: HS SL SG. Funding acquisition: PMA SG. Investigation: SG TCK SK. Methodology: SG HS SL. Project administration: SG. Resources: SG TCK SK PMA. Supervision: SG. Validation: SG HS SL. Visualization: HS SG TCK SL. Writing – original draft: SG HS SL. Writing – review & editing: SG HS SL TCK PMA.