About the Authors

María F. Azpiroz

fernanda@fcien.edu.uy

Affiliation Sección Fisiología y Genética Bacterianas, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay

Thais Bascuas

Affiliation Sección Fisiología y Genética Bacterianas, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay

Magela Laviña

Affiliation Sección Fisiología y Genética Bacterianas, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFA ML. Performed the experiments: MFA TB. Analyzed the data: MFA ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFA ML. Wrote the paper: MFA ML.