About the Authors

Florian Humily

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Frédéric Partensky

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Christophe Six

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Gregory K. Farrant

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Morgane Ratin

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Dominique Marie

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Laurence Garczarek

laurence.garczarek@sb-roscoff.fr

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Station Biologique, Roscoff, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7144, Oceanic Plankton group, Marine Phototrophic Prokaryotes team, Roscoff, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH FP CS LG. Performed the experiments: FH MR DM CS FP LG. Analyzed the data: FH GF MR FP CS LG. Wrote the manuscript: FH FP CS LG.