About the Authors

Daan C. Swarts

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Cas Mosterd

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Mark W. J. van Passel

Affiliation Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Stan J. J. Brouns

stan.brouns@wur.nl

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCS SJJB. Performed the experiments: DCS CM. Analyzed the data: DCS CM MWJvP SJJB. Wrote the paper: DCS SJJB.