About the Authors

Ersin Gül

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Erik Bakkeren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Guillem Salazar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Yves Steiger

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Andrew Abi Younes

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Melanie Clerc

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Philipp Christen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Stefan A. Fattinger

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Bidong D. Nguyen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Patrick Kiefer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Emma Slack

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Martin Ackermann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland

Julia A. Vorholt

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Shinichi Sunagawa

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Médéric Diard

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Botnar Research Centre for Child Health, Basel, Switzerland

Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hardt@micro.biol.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.