About the Authors

Mona Hoppenrath

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Vancouver, Canada, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Brian S. Leander

leander@zoology.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH BL. Performed the experiments: MH BL. Analyzed the data: MH BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL. Wrote the paper: MH BL.