About the Authors

Claudia Vannini

claudia.vannini@unipi.it

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Marta Volpi

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Center for Geomicrobiology, Institute of Bioscience, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Claudio Lardicci

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CV CL. Performed the experiments: CV MV CL. Analyzed the data: CV MV CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV CL. Wrote the paper: CV MV CL. Performed the sampling: CV MV CL.