About the Authors

Daan C. Swarts

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Jasper J. Koehorst

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Edze R. Westra

Current address: Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Peter J. Schaap

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

John van der Oost

john.vanderoost@wur.nl

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCS ERW JvdO. Performed the experiments: DCS ERW JvdO. Analyzed the data: DCS JJK PJS JvdO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCS ERW JJK PJS. Wrote the paper: DCS JJK ERW PJS JvdO.