About the Authors

Valerio Sbragaglia

Sbragaglia@icm.csic.es

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Francesco Lamanna

Affiliation Unit of Evolutionary Biology/Systematic Zoology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Audrey M. Mat

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Guiomar Rotllant

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Silvia Joly

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Valerio Ketmaier

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Horacio O. de la Iglesia

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Jacopo Aguzzi

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS FL VK HOI JA. Performed the experiments: VS AM GR SJ. Analyzed the data: VS FL VK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HOI JA. Wrote the paper: VS FL AM GR VK HOI JA.