About the Authors

Megan D. Niner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ MDN and CAS are Joint First Authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Carol A. Stepien

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cstepien@uw.edu, Stepien.carol@gmail.com

‡ MDN and CAS are Joint First Authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Genetics and Genomics Group, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Bartolomeo Gorgoglione

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, CVM, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America; Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, CANR—Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Douglas W. Leaman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.