About the Authors

Carole Decker

carole.decker@ifremer.fr

Affiliation IFREMER, REM/EEP/LEP, Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Plouzané, France

Karine Olu

Affiliation IFREMER, REM/EEP/LEP, Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Plouzané, France

Regina L. Cunha

Affiliation CCMAR-CIMAR, Center for Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Gambelas, Faro, Portugal

Sophie Arnaud-Haond

Affiliation IFREMER, REM/EEP/LEP, Laboratoire Environnement Profond, Plouzané, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD KO SAH. Performed the experiments: CD KO SAH. Analyzed the data: CD KO RLC SAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD KO RLC SAH. Wrote the paper: CD KO RLC SAH.