About the Authors

Silvia Gschwendtner

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Gschwendtner, Tapani Alatossava

Affiliation Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Tapani Alatossava

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Gschwendtner, Tapani Alatossava

Affiliation Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Susanne Kublik

Affiliation Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Mirna Mrkonjić Fuka

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Michael Schloter

Affiliation Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Patricia Munsch-Alatossava

patricia.munsch@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMA TA MS. Performed the experiments: PMA TA SG SK. Analyzed the data: PMA TA SG MMF MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA MS MMF. Wrote the paper: PMA TA SG MMF MS.