About the Authors

Michal Samuni-Blank

michal.samuni@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel

Ido Izhaki

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel

Yoram Gerchman

Affiliation Department of Biology and Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Oranim, Tivon 3600672, Israel

M. Denise Dearing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, United States of America

William H. Karasov

Affiliation Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, United States of America

Beny Trabelcy

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel

Thea M. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Biology, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN 37383, United States of America

Zeev Arad

Affiliation Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSB II MDD WHK ZA. Performed the experiments: MSB BT TME. Analyzed the data: MSB II. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSB II YG TME ZA. Wrote the paper: MSB II YG MDD WHK TME ZA.