About the Authors

Giacomo Milisenda

Contributed equally to this work with: Giacomo Milisenda, Sara Rosa

giacomo.milisenda@unisalento.it (GM); stefano.piraino@unisalento.it (SP)

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy

Sara Rosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Giacomo Milisenda, Sara Rosa

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Veronica L. Fuentes

Affiliation Institut de Ciencies del Mar-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Ferdinando Boero

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Genoa, Italy

Letterio Guglielmo

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology and Marine Ecology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Jennifer E. Purcell

Affiliations Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy, Shannon Point Marine Center, Western Washington University, Anacortes, Washington, United States of America

Stefano Piraino

giacomo.milisenda@unisalento.it (GM); stefano.piraino@unisalento.it (SP)

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM SR VLF. Performed the experiments: GM SR. Analyzed the data: GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP LG. Wrote the paper: GM JEP SP FB.