About the Authors

Kalisa Kang

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Évellin do Espirito Santo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Crisandra Jade Diaz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aaron Oliver

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lisa Saxton

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lauren May

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America,

Stephen Mayfield

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Algenesis Materials, San Diego, California, United States of America

João Vitor Dutra Molino

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

jdutramolino@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

SM was a founding of and holds an equity stake in Algenesis Inc, a company that could potentially benefit from this work. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.