About the Authors

Yasmin Gabay

yasminga@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science, Eilat, Israel

Maoz Fine

Affiliations The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science, Eilat, Israel, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Zahava Barkay

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yehuda Benayahu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YG. Performed the experiments: YG. Analyzed the data: YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG MF ZB YB. Wrote the paper: YG MF ZB YB.