About the Authors

Simona Kamenšek

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Kamenšek, Douglas F. Browning

Affiliation Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Douglas F. Browning

Contributed equally to this work with: Simona Kamenšek, Douglas F. Browning

D.F.BROWNING@bham.ac.uk (DFB); matej.butala@bf.uni-lj.si (MB)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Zdravko Podlesek

Affiliation Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Stephen J. W. Busby

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Darja Žgur-Bertok

Affiliation Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matej Butala

D.F.BROWNING@bham.ac.uk (DFB); matej.butala@bf.uni-lj.si (MB)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK DFB ZP SJWB DŽB MB. Performed the experiments: SK DFB ZP MB. Analyzed the data: SK DFB ZP MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DFB SJWB DŽB MB. Wrote the paper: DFB SJWB DŽB MB.