About the Authors

Hagai Shemesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Hagai Shemesh, Adi Arbiv

hagaig@bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Miterani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel

Adi Arbiv

Contributed equally to this work with: Hagai Shemesh, Adi Arbiv

Affiliations Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Miterani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel

Mordechai Gersani

Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ofer Ovadia

Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ariel Novoplansky

Affiliation Miterani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS AA MG OO AN. Performed the experiments: HS AA. Analyzed the data: HS AA OO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OO AN. Wrote the paper: HS OO AN.