About the Authors

Beate Skånseng

Affiliations MATFORSK, Norwegian Food Research Institute, Ås, Norway , Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Pål Trosvik

Affiliations MATFORSK, Norwegian Food Research Institute, Ås, Norway , Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Monika Zimonja

Affiliations MATFORSK, Norwegian Food Research Institute, Ås, Norway , Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Gro Johnsen

Affiliations National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway , IVAR, Stavanger, Norway

Lotte Bjerrum

Affiliation National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Århus N, Denmark

Karl Pedersen

Affiliation National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Århus N, Denmark

Nina Wallin

Affiliation Department of Applied Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Knut Rudi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: knut.rudi@matforsk.no

Affiliations MATFORSK, Norwegian Food Research Institute, Ås, Norway , Hedmark University College, Hamar, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BS, LB, KP, and KR conceived and designed the experiments. BS, LB, and NW performed the experiments. BS, PT, MZ, and KR analysed the data. PT, MZ, GJ, LB, and KR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. BS and KR wrote the paper.