About the Authors

Jan Pawlowski

Jan.Pawlowski@unige.ch

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Richard Christen

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Virtuelle, Université de Nice, UMR 6543, Nice, France

Béatrice Lecroq

Affiliation Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

Dipankar Bachar

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Virtuelle, Université de Nice, UMR 6543, Nice, France

Hamid Reza Shahbazkia

Affiliation Departamento de Engenharia Electronica e Informatica, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Linda Amaral-Zettler

Affiliation Marine Biological Laboratory, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laure Guillou

Affiliation Station Biologique de Roscoff, UMR 7144, Roscoff, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP. Performed the experiments: BL LAZ. Analyzed the data: RC DB HRS LG JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAZ LG. Wrote the paper: JP RC LAZ.