About the Authors
- Ákos T. Kovács
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Current address: Terrestrial Biofilms, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Affiliation Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Tom H. Eckhardt
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Affiliation Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Richard van Kranenburg
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Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Oscar P. Kuipers
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* E-mail: o.p.kuipers@rug.nl
Affiliations Molecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, Groningen, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy (including the parts on Competing Interests and Sharing Materials and Data) and see no conflicting interests. RvK and MvH are employed by the commercial company Purac (Gorinchem, Netherlands), but this does not conflict with the PLOS ONE policies on sharing materials and data.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ATK RvK OPK. Performed the experiments: ATK THE. Analyzed the data: ATK THE OPK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATK RvK OPK. Wrote the paper: ATK THE RvK OPK.