About the Authors

François Lapraz

Affiliation UPMC (University of Paris 06), CNRS, UMR7009, Biologie du Développement, Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Lydia Besnardeau

Affiliation UPMC (University of Paris 06), CNRS, UMR7009, Biologie du Développement, Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Thierry Lepage

lepage@obs-vlfr.fr

Affiliation UPMC (University of Paris 06), CNRS, UMR7009, Biologie du Développement, Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: FL TL. Performed the experiments: FL LB TL. Analyzed the data: FL TL. Wrote the paper: FL TL.