About the Authors

Christina Bienhold

cbienhol@mpi-bremen.de

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Lucie Zinger

Current address: Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, CNRS, ENFA, UMR 5174 EDB, Toulouse, France,

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Antje Boetius

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Alban Ramette

Current address: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB AB AR. Performed the experiments: CB. Analyzed the data: CB LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ AB AR. Wrote the paper: CB LZ AB AR.