About the Authors

Gal Eyal

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel

Jörg Wiedenmann

joerg.wiedenmann@soton.ac.uk

Affiliations Coral Reef Laboratory, University of Southampton, NOCS, Southampton, United Kingdom, Institute for Life Sciences (IFLS), University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Mila Grinblat

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Cecilia D’Angelo

Affiliation Coral Reef Laboratory, University of Southampton, NOCS, Southampton, United Kingdom

Esti Kramarsky-Winter

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

Tali Treibitz

Affiliation Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Or Ben-Zvi

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yonathan Shaked

Affiliation The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel

Tyler B. Smith

Affiliation Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, United States of America

Saki Harii

Affiliation Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan

Vianney Denis

Affiliation Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Tim Noyes

Affiliation Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), St. George's, Bermuda

Raz Tamir

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Yossi Loya

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GE CDA JW YL. Performed the experiments: GE CDA JW. Analyzed the data: GE CDA JW MG EKW OBZ SH VD TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT RT. Wrote the paper: GE CDA JW YL. Sample collection: GE YS TBS.