About the Authors

Olaf Tyc

Contributed equally to this work with: Olaf Tyc, Laura Tomás-Menor

Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Department of Microbial Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Laura Tomás-Menor

Contributed equally to this work with: Olaf Tyc, Laura Tomás-Menor

Affiliation Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular (IBMC), Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Avenida de la Universidad s/n, E-03202 Elche, Alicante, Spain

Paolina Garbeva

Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Department of Microbial Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Enrique Barrajón-Catalán

‡ These authors share co-senior authorship.

Affiliations Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular (IBMC), Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Avenida de la Universidad s/n, E-03202 Elche, Alicante, Spain, INVITROTECNIA S.L., Santiago Grisolía 2, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

Vicente Micol

vmicol@umh.es

‡ These authors share co-senior authorship.

Affiliation Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular (IBMC), Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH), Avenida de la Universidad s/n, E-03202 Elche, Alicante, Spain

Competing Interests

We would like to state that the funder Invitrotecnia S.L. only provided support in the form of salaries for author EBC. This does not alter author’s adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. We also declare no competing interest for any of the authors related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OT LTM PG EBC VM. Formal analysis: LT OT. Funding acquisition: VM PG. Investigation: OT LTM. Methodology: OT EBC PG VM. Project administration: EBC. Resources: VM PG. Supervision: PG VM. Validation: OT LTM EBC PG VM. Writing – original draft: EBC LTM OT. Writing – review & editing: OT PG EBC VM.