About the Authors

Sievert Rohwer

rohwer@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Burke Museum and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Luan-Keng Wang

Current address: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Singapore National University, Singapore, Singapore

Affiliation Burke Museum and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR LKW. Performed the experiments: SR LKW. Analyzed the data: SR LKW. Wrote the paper: SR LKW.