About the Authors

Josefa Antón

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Marianna Lucio

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Neuherberg, Germany

Arantxa Peña

a.pena@uib.es

Current address: Department of Biology-Microbiology, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Ana Cifuentes

Affiliation Marine Microbiology Group, Departament of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Jocelyn Brito-Echeverría

Affiliation Marine Microbiology Group, Departament of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Franco Moritz

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Neuherberg, Germany

Dimitrios Tziotis

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Neuherberg, Germany

Cristina López

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Mercedes Urdiain

Affiliation Marine Microbiology Group, Departament of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin

Affiliations Marine Microbiology Group, Departament of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain, Technische Universität München, Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Ramon Rosselló-Móra

Affiliation Marine Microbiology Group, Departament of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA PSK RRM. Performed the experiments: ML AP AC JBE FM DT CL MU PS. Analyzed the data: JA ML AP PSK RRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA PSK RRM. Wrote the paper: JA PSK RRM.