The expedition was undertaken with financial support of the
PTJ (German Ministry for Science and Education), Grant 03G0223A
to Angelika Brandt. The work was supported by the Russian
Foundation of Basis Research (Project 13-04-02144), the Council
of the President of the Russian Federation (Project МК-
2599.2013.4), Otto Schmidt Laboratory Grant (OSL-14-15), Presidium
of the Far East Branch of RAS (Project 14-III-В-06-061).
The authors are grateful to the crew of the RV “Sonne” for
commendable support during the KuramBio expedition and to
expedition leader Prof. Angelika Brandt; to Drs. M.V. Malyutina,
O.A. Golovan and to Prof. A.V. Chernyshev (IMB FEB RAS, Vladivostok)
for the consultation and arrangement of our work. We are
grateful to Daniel Roccatagliata and an anonymous reviewer for
constructive and fruitful comments. Many thanks to Brigitte Ebbe
and Volker Siegel for revising the English text.