About the Authors

Dorota Skotnicka

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Gregory T. Smaldone

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory T. Smaldone, Tobias Petters

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Tobias Petters

Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory T. Smaldone, Tobias Petters

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Eleftheria Trampari

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Jennifer Liang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Volkhard Kaever

Affiliation Research Core Unit Metabolomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jacob G. Malone

Affiliations Molecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Mitchell Singer

mhsinger@ucdavis.edu (MS); sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (LSA)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California - Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

mhsinger@ucdavis.edu (MS); sogaard@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (LSA)

Affiliation Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS GTS TP ET VK JGM MS LSA. Performed the experiments: DS GTS TP ET JL VK. Analyzed the data: DS GTS TP ET VK JGM MS LSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS GTS TP ET VK JGM MS LSA. Wrote the paper: DS GTS ET VK JGM MS LSA.