About the Authors

Melissa S. Roth

Melissa.S.Roth@gmail.com

Current address: Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America; Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tung-Yung Fan

Affiliations National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution, National Dong Hwa University, Pingtung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Dimitri D. Deheyn

Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSR DDD. Performed the experiments: MSR. Analyzed the data: MSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TYF DDD. Wrote the paper: MSR DDD.