About the Authors

Joerg Behnke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Joerg.behnke@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (JB); Julie.laroche@dal.ca (JL)

Current address: National Research Council, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development Research Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Yun Cai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hong Gu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Julie LaRoche

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

Joerg.behnke@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (JB); Julie.laroche@dal.ca (JL)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.