About the Authors

Michael Scantlebury

m.scantlebury@qub.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Haifa Oranim campus, Tivon, Israel, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Abraham Haim

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Haifa Oranim campus, Tivon, Israel, The Israeli Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Chronobiology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AH. Performed the experiments: MS AH. Analyzed the data: MS AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH. Wrote the paper: MS AH. Designed software used in analysis: JWHF