Population genomic response to geographic gradients by widespread and endemic fishes of the Arabian Peninsula

This research was supported by the KAUST Office of Competitive Research Funds (OCRF) under Award No. CRG-1-2012-BER-002 and baseline research funds to M.L.B., a National Geographic Society Grant 9024-11 to J.D.D., a National Science Foundation grant OCE-1558852 to B.W.B., California Academy of Sciences funding to L.A.R, and Australian Research Council funding to J.-P.A.H. (DE200101286). For support in Socotra, we kindly thank the Ministry of Water and Environment of Yemen, staff at the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Socotra, and especially Salah Saeed Ahmed, Fouad Naseeb and Thabet Abdullah Khamis, as well as Ahmed Issa Ali Affrar from Socotra Specialist Tour for handling general logistics. For logistic support elsewhere, we thank Eric Mason at Dream Divers in Saudi Arabia; the Red Sea State Government and The Red Sea University in Sudan, as well as Equipe Cousteau support for the Sudan Shark and Ray Conservation and Management Program including C. Scarpellini and M. Younis; Nicolas Prevot at Dolphin Divers and the crew of the M/V Deli in Djibouti; the KAUST Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab and Amr Gusti; and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman including Abdul Karim. For specimen collections, we thank Tilman Alpermann, Giacomo Bernardi, Richard Coleman, Gerrit Nanninga, and members of the Reef Ecology Lab at KAUST. For assistance with bench work at KAUST, we thank Craig Michell. We also acknowledge important contributions from the KAUST Bioscience Core Laboratory with Sivakumar Neelamegam and Hicham Mansour for their assistance with Illumina sequencing. Thanks to Robert Toonen and Stephen Karl for discussions and critiques that improved this manuscript.