About the Authors

Nolwenn M. Dheilly

nolwenn.dheilly@stonybrook.edu (NMD); jmartinez@bigelow.org (JMM)

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Joaquín Martínez Martínez

nolwenn.dheilly@stonybrook.edu (NMD); jmartinez@bigelow.org (JMM)

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States of America

Karyna Rosario

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Paul J. Brindley

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Raina N. Fichorova

Affiliation Genital Tract Biology Division, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan Z. Kaye

Affiliation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Kevin D. Kohl

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Laura J. Knoll

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Julius Lukeš

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic

Susan L. Perkins

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Poulin

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Lynn Schriml

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luke R. Thompson

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences and Northern Gulf Institute, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.