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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Lidia Lins conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Sofie Derycke analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Tania Nara Campinas Bezerra analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Ann Vanreusel conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The data is not yet complete

Funding

The Vema-TRANSIT expedition was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant no. 03G0237A to Angelika Brandt). Lidia Lins was financed by projects Marine Bio Services Exploration/ Ghent University (B/14146/03) and Kurambio II (03G0250A). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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