About the Authors

Ofer Ben-Tzvi

obentzvi@gmail.com

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Avigdor Abelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Avigdor Abelson, Moshe Kiflawi

Affiliation Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Steven D. Gaines

Affiliation Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Giacomo Bernardi

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Ricardo Beldade

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Michael S. Sheehy

Affiliation Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Georges L. Paradis

Affiliations Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Moshe Kiflawi

Contributed equally to this work with: Avigdor Abelson, Moshe Kiflawi

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OBT AA GB MK. Performed the experiments: OBT RB MSS GLP. Analyzed the data: OBT AA GB RB MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDG. Wrote the paper: OBT AA MK.