About the Authors

Elianne Egge

e.s.egge@ibv.uio.no (EE); bente.edvardsen@ibv.uio.no (BE)

Affiliation University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Marine Biology, Oslo, Norway

Lucie Bittner

Affiliations CNRS UMR7144 & UPMC, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Ecology, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Tom Andersen

Affiliation University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Integrative Biology, Oslo, Norway

Stéphane Audic

Affiliation CNRS UMR7144 & UPMC, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France

Colomban de Vargas

Affiliation CNRS UMR7144 & UPMC, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France

Bente Edvardsen

e.s.egge@ibv.uio.no (EE); bente.edvardsen@ibv.uio.no (BE)

Affiliation University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Marine Biology, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EE BE. Performed the experiments: EE BE. Analyzed the data: EE BE TA SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EE BE SA CdV. Wrote the paper: EE LB TA BE.