About the Authors

Fernando Morcillo

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

María T. González-Muñoz

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Thomas Reitz

Current address: Department of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

María E. Romero-González

Affiliation Structural and Civil Engineering Department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

José M. Arias

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Mohamed L. Merroun

merroun@ugr.es

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLM. Performed the experiments: FM TR. Analyzed the data: FM MLM MTGM TR MRG JMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLM MTGM MRG JMA. Wrote the paper: MLM.