About the Authors

Ana-Belen Martín-Cuadrado

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana-Belen Martín-Cuadrado, Purificación López-García

Affiliation División de Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Purificación López-García

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana-Belen Martín-Cuadrado, Purificación López-García

Affiliation Unité d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Juan-Carlos Alba

Affiliation División de Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

David Moreira

Affiliation Unité d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Luis Monticelli

Affiliation Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sezione di Messina, Messina, Italy

Axel Strittmatter

Affiliation Laboratorium für Genomanalyse, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Gerhard Gottschalk

Affiliation Laboratorium für Genomanalyse, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: frvalera@umh.es

Affiliation División de Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR PL DM. Performed the experiments: AM JA. Analyzed the data: FR AM PL DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR AM. Wrote the paper: FR PL. Other: Provided sequencing: GG AS.