About the Authors

Christine Ward-Paige

globalshark@gmail.com

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

Joanna Mills Flemming

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

Heike K. Lotze

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAWP. Performed the experiments: CAWP. Analyzed the data: CAWP JEMF. Wrote the paper: CAWP JEMF HKL.