About the Authors

Igal Berenshtein

igalbe@post.bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus, Beer-Sheva, Israel, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel

Moshe Kiflawi

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat Campus, Beer-Sheva, Israel, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat, Eilat, Israel

Nadav Shashar

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

Uri Wieler

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

Haim Agiv

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Claire B. Paris

Affiliation Applied Marine Physics, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IB CP MK NS UW HA. Performed the experiments: IB UW. Analyzed the data: IB MK UW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP MK NS HA. Wrote the paper: IB MK CP NS UW HA.