About the Authors

Matthew J. Ballinger

mattball@uvic.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Steve J. Perlman

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MJB SJP. Data curation: MJB. Formal analysis: MJB. Funding acquisition: SJP. Investigation: MJB. Methodology: MJB SJP. Project administration: MJB SJP. Resources: SJP. Supervision: SJP. Validation: MJB SJP. Visualization: MJB. Writing – original draft: MJB SJP. Writing – review & editing: MJB SJP.