About the Authors

Orly Levitan

levitao@gmail.com

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Stefanie Sudhaus

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Julie LaRoche

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Ilana Berman-Frank

Affiliation The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL SS JLR IBF. Performed the experiments: OL SS JLR IBF. Analyzed the data: OL SS JLR IBF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OL SS JLR IBF. Wrote the paper: OL SS JLR IBF. Funding: JLR IBF.