About the Authors

Till Bayer

Contributed equally to this work with: Till Bayer, Manuel Aranda

Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Manuel Aranda

Contributed equally to this work with: Till Bayer, Manuel Aranda

Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Shinichi Sunagawa

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Lauren K. Yum

Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Michael K. DeSalvo

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia, UCSF School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Erika Lindquist

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Mary Alice Coffroth

Affiliation Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Christian R. Voolstra

christian.voolstra@kaust.edu.sa (CRV); mmedina@ucmerced.edu (MM)

Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Mónica Medina

christian.voolstra@kaust.edu.sa (CRV); mmedina@ucmerced.edu (MM)

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB MA SS CRV MM. Performed the experiments: TB MA CRV MM MAC LKY EL. Analyzed the data: TB MA SS CRV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKD MAC. Wrote the paper: TB MA CRV.