About the Authors

Andrew G. Briscoe

Affiliation Environment Centre Wales Building, Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Sara Goodacre

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Susan E. Masta

Affiliation Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Martin I. Taylor

Affiliation Environment Centre Wales Building, Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Miquel A. Arnedo

Affiliation Departament Biologia Animal, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

David Penney

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

John Kenny

Affiliation Centre for Genomic Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon Creer

s.creer@bangor.ac.uk

Affiliation Environment Centre Wales Building, Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical review of the manuscript: SG SM MIT MAA DP JK. Conceived and designed the experiments: AGB SC. Performed the experiments: AGB. Analyzed the data: AGB SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGB SC JK. Wrote the paper: AGB SC.