About the Authors

Andréa G. Grottoli

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

grottoli.1@osu.edu

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Paula Dalcin Martins

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Michael J. Wilkins

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Michael D. Johnston

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Mark E. Warner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States of America

Wei-Jun Cai

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States of America

Todd F. Melman

Roles Resources

Affiliation Reef Systems Coral Farm, New Albany, OH, United States of America

Kenneth D. Hoadley

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States of America

D. Tye Pettay

Roles Methodology

Affiliation School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States of America

Stephen Levas

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Current address: Department of Geology and Geography, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, United States of America

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Verena Schoepf

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, UWA Oceans Institute and School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have the following interests. Todd F. Melman is the owner of Reef Systems Coral Farm. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.