About the Authors

Siddarthan Venkatachalam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Isabelle J. Ansorge

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Adriano Mendes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Lebohang I. Melato

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: South African Weather Service, Climate Forecast Division, Pretoria, South Africa.

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Gwynneth F. Matcher

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Rosemary A. Dorrington

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

r.dorrington@ru.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.