Acknowledgments
We thank the staff at Yellow Island Aquaculture
(http://yellowislandaquaculture.ca/),
especially Dr. John Heath, Dr. Ann
Heath, Jane Drown and Earl Heath for their help during the breeding and
sampling. We would like to especially thank Shelby Mackie and Jonathon
Leblanc (Environmental Genomics Facility, GLIER) for helping with DNA
robotic extraction, high throughput metbarcoding library sequencing, and
Open Array nanofluidic chip analyses. We thank Zahra S. Taboun and Keta
Patel for their help with RNA sequencing analysis. This research
received financial support from Canada’s Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to DDH and JS received an Ontario
Trillium Scholarship (OTS).