About the Authors

Victoria S. Paulsen

Affiliation Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Hans-Matti Blencke

Affiliation Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Monica Benincasa

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Tor Haug

Affiliation Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Jacobus J. Eksteen

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Olaf B. Styrvold

Affiliation Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Marco Scocchi

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Klara Stensvåg

klara.stensvag@uit.no

Affiliation Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VSP H-MB MB TH MS KS. Analyzed the data: VSP H-MB MB JJE. Wrote the paper: VSP. Critically revised the manuscript: VSP H-MB MB TH OBS MS KS.