About the Authors

Cynthia L. Araujo-Palomares

Contributed equally to this work with: Cynthia L. Araujo-Palomares, Corinna Richthammer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada Baja California, México

Corinna Richthammer

Contributed equally to this work with: Cynthia L. Araujo-Palomares, Corinna Richthammer

Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Stephan Seiler

sseiler@gwdg.de (SS); ecastro@cicese.mx (EC-L)

Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Ernestina Castro-Longoria

sseiler@gwdg.de (SS); ecastro@cicese.mx (EC-L)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada Baja California, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC-L SS. Performed the experiments: CLA-P CR. Analyzed the data: CLA-P CR SS EC-L. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS EC-L. Wrote the paper: CLA-P CR SS EC-L.