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).