About the Authors

Claudia Steglich

Claudia.Steglich@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Matthias E. Futschik

Affiliation Institute of Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Debbie Lindell

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Bjoern Voss

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sallie W. Chisholm

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wolfgang R. Hess

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: CS MEF BV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEF WRH. Wrote the paper: CS DL SWC WRH.