About the Authors

Francesco Ballestriero

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Malak Daim

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Anahit Penesyan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jadranka Nappi

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

David Schleheck

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Paolo Bazzicalupo

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati Traverso", National Research Council, Naples, Italy

Elia Di Schiavi

Current address: Institute of Bioscience and BioResources, National Research Council, Naples, Italy

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati Traverso", National Research Council, Naples, Italy

Suhelen Egan

s.egan@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB PB EDS SE. Performed the experiments: FB MD AP JN DS. Analyzed the data: FB DS PB EDS SE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB EDS SE. Wrote the paper: FB AP DS PB EDS SE.