About the Authors

Betty Kientz

Affiliation UMR 7266 CNRS Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

Adrien Ducret

Affiliation UMR 7283 CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

Stephen Luke

Affiliation School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Peter Vukusic

Affiliation School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Tâm Mignot

Affiliation UMR 7283 CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

Eric Rosenfeld

eric.rosenfeld@univ-lr.fr

Affiliation UMR 7266 CNRS Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK AD SL PV TM ER. Performed the experiments: BK AD SL. Analyzed the data: BK AD SL ER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL PV TM. Wrote the paper: BK ER. English revision: PV.