About the Authors

Adi Barocas

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amiyaal Ilany

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lee Koren

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Michael Kam

Affiliation Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Eli Geffen

geffene@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB AI LK EG. Performed the experiments: AB AI LK MK EG. Analyzed the data: AB AI EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB AI EG. Wrote the paper: AB AI LK MK EG.