About the Authors

Odd Aksel Bergstad

oddaksel@imr.no

Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Arendal, Norway

Guro Gjelsvik

Affiliation Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, Bergen, Norway

Christoffer Schander

Affiliation Department of Biology and Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Åge S. Høines

Affiliation Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OAB CS SH. Performed the experiments: OAB GG SH. Analyzed the data: OAB GG CS SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OAB CS SH. Wrote the paper: OAB GG CS SH.