About the Authors

Orit Adato

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Noga Ninyo

Current address: Evogene Ltd., Rehovot, Israel

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Uri Gophna

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Sagi Snir

ssagi@research.haifa.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA NN SS. Performed the experiments: OA NN. Analyzed the data: UG SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: UG SS.