About the Authors

Nicolas Carraro

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Carraro, Dominick Matteau

Affiliation Laboratory of bacterial molecular genetics, Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Dominick Matteau

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Carraro, Dominick Matteau

Affiliation Laboratory of microbial systems and synthetic biology, Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Peng Luo

Affiliations Laboratory of bacterial molecular genetics, Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Sébastien Rodrigue

Sebastien.Rodrigue@USherbrooke.ca (SR); Vincent.Burrus@USherbrooke.ca (VB)

Affiliation Laboratory of microbial systems and synthetic biology, Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Vincent Burrus

Sebastien.Rodrigue@USherbrooke.ca (SR); Vincent.Burrus@USherbrooke.ca (VB)

Affiliation Laboratory of bacterial molecular genetics, Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC DM SR VB. Performed the experiments: NC DM PL SR VB. Analyzed the data: NC DM PL SR VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR VB. Wrote the paper: NC DM SR VB.