About the Authors

Tony Gutierrez

Tony.Gutierrez@hw.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

David Berry

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Tingting Yang

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sara Mishamandani

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Luke McKay

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Andreas Teske

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael D. Aitken

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG. Performed the experiments: TG SM. Analyzed the data: TG DB TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG LM AT MDA. Wrote the manuscript: TG.