About the Authors

Ofer Ben-Tzvi

obentzvi@gmail.com

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Moshe Kiflawi

Contributed equally to this work with: Moshe Kiflawi, Avigdor Abelson

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Omer Polak

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Avigdor Abelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Moshe Kiflawi, Avigdor Abelson

Affiliation Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OBT MK AA. Performed the experiments: OBT OP. Analyzed the data: OBT MK. Wrote the paper: OBT AA.