About the Authors

Lara Connolley

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Connolley, Joanna Szczepaniak

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and LOEWE Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

Joanna Szczepaniak

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara Connolley, Joanna Szczepaniak

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Colin Kleanthous

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

colin.kleanthous@bioch.ox.ac.uk (CK); sean.murray@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de (SMM)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Seán M. Murray

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

colin.kleanthous@bioch.ox.ac.uk (CK); sean.murray@synmikro.mpi-marburg.mpg.de (SMM)

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and LOEWE Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.