About the Authors

Youssef El Mouali

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

Current address: RNA Biology Group, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, School of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Tania Gaviria-Cantin

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Exactas y Estadística. Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad de Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, School of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

María Antonia Sánchez-Romero

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Marta Gibert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, School of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Alexander J. Westermann

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations RNA Biology Group, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany

Jörg Vogel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations RNA Biology Group, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, Germany

Carlos Balsalobre

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

cbalsalobre@ub.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, School of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.