About the Authors

Matan Oren

matan@ocean.org.il

Affiliations Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Marie-line Escande

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Laboratoire Arago, Avenue Fontolé, BP44, Banyuls sur Mer, France

Guy Paz

Affiliation Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel

Zvi Fishelson

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Baruch Rinkevich

Affiliation Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO ZF. Performed the experiments: MO MlE GP. Analyzed the data: MO ZF BR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MlE GP BR. Wrote the paper: MO BR.