About the Authors

Gyri T. Haugland

Gyri.Haugland@bio.uib.no

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen High-Technology Centre, Bergen, Norway

Ann-Elise O. Jordal
Heidrun I. Wergeland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: GTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HI. Wrote the paper: GTH HI. Conceived and designed the qRT-PCR experiments: GTH AEOJ. Conceived and designed all other experiments: GTH HI. Analyzed the qRT-PCR data: GTH AEOJ. Analyzed the other data: GTH.