About the Authors

Kristen A. Byler

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, United States of America

Maya Carmi-Veal

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute of Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel

Maoz Fine

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute of Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Tamar L. Goulet

tlgoulet@olemiss.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAB MF TLG. Performed the experiments: KAB MF MC TLG. Analyzed the data: KAB MC TLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF TLG. Wrote the paper: KAB TLG.