About the Authors

Panagiotis D. Dimitriou

Affiliation University of Crete, Biology Department, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Nafsika Papageorgiou

Affiliations University of Crete, Biology Department, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Christos Arvanitidis

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Georgia Assimakopoulou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece

Kalliopi Pagou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece

Konstantia N. Papadopoulou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Alexandra Pavlidou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece

Paraskevi Pitta

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Sofia Reizopoulou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece

Nomiki Simboura

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece

Ioannis Karakassis

karakassis@biology.uoc.gr

Affiliation University of Crete, Biology Department, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDD IK NP. Performed the experiments: IK NP CA GA KP KNP AP PP SR NS. Analyzed the data: PDD IK NP. Wrote the paper: PDD NP IK.