About the Authors

Tim D. Williams

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Nil Turan

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Amer M. Diab

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Huifeng Wu

Affiliations School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Academy of Sciences, Yantai, PR. China

Carolynn Mackenzie

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Katie L. Bartie

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Olga Hrydziuszko

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Brett P. Lyons

Affiliation Cefas, Weymouth Laboratory, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

Grant D. Stentiford

Affiliation Cefas, Weymouth Laboratory, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

John M. Herbert

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Joseph K. Abraham

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Ioanna Katsiadaki

Affiliation Cefas, Weymouth Laboratory, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

Michael J. Leaver

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

John B. Taggart

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Stephen G. George

Affiliation Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

Mark R. Viant

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kevin J. Chipman

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Francesco Falciani

f.falciani@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJL SGG MRV KJC FF. Performed the experiments: TDW AMD HW CM BPL GDS IK. Analyzed the data: TDW NT KLB OH JKA JBT JMH. Wrote the paper: TDW FF.