About the Authors

Frank Melzner

fmelzner@ifm-geomar.de

Affiliation Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Paul Stange

Affiliation Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Katja Trübenbach

Affiliations Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany, Laboratorio Maritimo da Guia, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal

Jörn Thomsen

Affiliation Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Isabel Casties

Affiliation Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Ulrike Panknin

Affiliation Biological Oceanography, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Stanislav N. Gorb

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Magdalena A. Gutowska

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM MAG PS. Performed the experiments: FM MAG PS JT KT IC SNG UP. Analyzed the data: FM MAG PS JT KT IC SNG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM SNG MAG. Wrote the paper: FM MAG JT.