About the Authors

Alexander Vogt

Affiliation Institute of General Zoology and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Cecilia D'Angelo

Affiliation Institute of General Zoology and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Franz Oswald

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Andrea Denzel

Affiliation Institute of General Zoology and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Charles H. Mazel

Affiliation NightSea, Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mikhail V. Matz

Affiliation Integrative Biology, University of Texas in Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Sergey Ivanchenko

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

G. Ulrich Nienhaus

Affiliations Institute of Biophysics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jörg Wiedenmann

J.Wiedenmann@soton.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of General Zoology and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FO CHM MVM JW. Performed the experiments: AV CD FO AD CHM MVM SI JW. Analyzed the data: AV CD FO SI GUN JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHM MVM JW. Wrote the paper: CD GUN JW.