About the Authors

Enrique Blanco Gonzalez

enrique.blanco@uia.no

Affiliations The Research Institute of Marine Bioresources, Fukuyama University, Onomichi, 722-2101, Japan, University of Agder, N-4604, Kristiansand, Norway, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Flødevigen, N-4817, His, Norway

Masato Aritaki

Affiliation Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, Nagasaki, 851-2213, Japan

Halvor Knutsen

Affiliations University of Agder, N-4604, Kristiansand, Norway, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Flødevigen, N-4817, His, Norway, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway

Nobuhiko Taniguchi

Affiliation The Research Institute of Marine Bioresources, Fukuyama University, Onomichi, 722-2101, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EBG MA NT. Performed the experiments: EBG. Analyzed the data: EBG HK NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EBG NT. Wrote the paper: EBG MA HK NT.