About the Authors

Beverly Goodman Tchernov

bgoodman@univ.haifa.ac.il

Affiliation University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Israel

Timor Katz

Affiliation Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Shikmona, Israel

Yonathan Shaked

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute of Marine Sciences-Eilat, Coral Beach, Israel

Nairooz Qupty

Affiliation University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Israel

Mor Kanari

Affiliations Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Shikmona, Israel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tina Niemi

Affiliation University of Kansas-Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Amotz Agnon

Affiliation Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG AA TK TN. Performed the experiments: BG TK MK NQ YS. Analyzed the data: BG TK AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG TK. Wrote the paper: BG TK AA YS MK TN.