About the Authors

Olivia Lanzoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Olivia Lanzoni, Sergei I. Fokin

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

Sergei I. Fokin

Contributed equally to this work with: Olivia Lanzoni, Sergei I. Fokin

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Natalia Lebedeva

Affiliation Centre of Core Facilities “Culture Collections of Microorganisms”, Research Park, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Alexandra Migunova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Giulio Petroni

giulio.petroni@unipi.it (GP); alexey.potekhin@spbu.ru (AP)

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

Alexey Potekhin

giulio.petroni@unipi.it (GP); alexey.potekhin@spbu.ru (AP)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OL SF GP AP. Data curation: OL SF GP AP. Funding acquisition: GP AP. Investigation: OL SF NL AM GP AP. Resources: GP AP. Validation: OL GP AP. Visualization: OL SF AP. Writing – original draft: OL SF AP. Writing – review & editing: OL GP AP.