About the Authors

Karina Karenina

Contributed equally to this work with: Karina Karenina, Andrey Giljov

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Andrey Giljov

Contributed equally to this work with: Karina Karenina, Andrey Giljov

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Vladimir Baranov

Affiliation Laboratory of Marine Mammals, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

Ludmila Osipova

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Vera Krasnova

Affiliation Laboratory of Marine Mammals, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

Yegor Malashichev

malashichev@embryo.pu.ru

Affiliations Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Department of Embryology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Saint-Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK AG VB YBM. Performed the experiments: KK AG VB LO VK YBM. Analyzed the data: KK AG VB LO VK YBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK AG VB LO VK YBM. Wrote the paper: KK AG YBM.