ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was made possible by grants from the Gulf of Mexico
Research Initiative (GRI-013 and GoMRI2012-II-523), the National Science
Foundation (OCE-0315995 and NSF (2010)-PFUND-214), the Louisiana Board
of Regents (ENH_2008–09) and by University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Doctoral Fellowships to B.Y. and T.S. Special thanks to the Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Army Corps of Engineers, the
University of New Orleans, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
(LUMCON), the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department for assistance with sampling. We are grateful for
sample collections provided by Mary Kay Fox and Chris Weidman at Waquoit
Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Fred Scharf at University of
North Carolina Wilmington, Kyle Spiller at Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, and Matt Watkins and Shannon Martin at Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission. Samples from the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette Zoological Collection were kindly provided by
Darryl Felder. We also thank Rachel Sullivan and Eric Dean for
assistance with collecting. We thank Thomas Schultz Division at the Duke
University Nicholas School of the Environment for making available to a
draft genome sequence of the blue crab. We thank the DNA Technologies
Core, and especially Siranoosh Ashtari, for help with the Infinium Assay
genotyping.