About the Authors

Stéphanie Céline Michl

michl@gma-buesum.de

Affiliations Gesellschaft für Marine Aquakultur mbH (GMA) Büsum, Büsum, Germany, Department of Marine Aquaculture, Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Jenni-Marie Ratten

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Matt Beyer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Mario Hasler

Affiliation Lehrfach Variationsstatistik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Julie LaRoche

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Carsten Schulz

Affiliations Gesellschaft für Marine Aquakultur mbH (GMA) Büsum, Büsum, Germany, Department of Marine Aquaculture, Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SCM CS. Formal analysis: SCM MH JMR MB. Funding acquisition: JL CS. Investigation: SCM JMR MB. Methodology: SCM. Project administration: SCM. Resources: JL CS. Supervision: JL CS. Visualization: SCM. Writing – original draft: SCM. Writing – review & editing: JMR MB MH JL CS.