Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge NSF GRFP and GRIP [DEG No. 2015204395],
UCLA La Kretz Center for Conservation Genomics, and UCLA Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology for funding this research. In addition,
we would like to thank Regina Wetzer, Dean Pentcheff, Adam Wall, Janessa
Wall, and Giacamo Bernardi for providing additional voucher specimens.
We would like to thank Julianne K. Passarelli and Milton S. Love for
sharing their comprehensive list of California fish species from their
new edition of Miller and Lea’s Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes
of California (Love & Passarelli, 2020). Lastly, we would like to
thank McKenzie Koch, Beverly Shih, Nikita Sridhar, Lauren Man, Eric
Caldera, and Erick Zerecero for help conduct all laboratory work. We
would like to thank William Watson, Phillip A. Hastings, Peggy Fong,
Richard F. Ambrose, and Thomas B. Smith for providing thoughtful
feedback and comments during the preparation of the manuscript.