About the Authors

Evamaria Krause

evamaria.krause@awi.de

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany

Antje Wichels

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany

Luis Giménez

Affiliation School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Wales, UK

Mirko Lunau

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany

Markus B. Schilhabel

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Gunnar Gerdts

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK AW GG. Performed the experiments: EK. Analyzed the data: EK AW LG ML MBS GG. Wrote the paper: EK AW LG ML GG.