About the Authors

Jan Grueneberg

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jena School for Microbial Communication, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Aschwin H. Engelen

Affiliation Center of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Rodrigo Costa

Affiliation Center of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Thomas Wichard

Thomas.Wichard@uni-jena.de

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Jena School for Microbial Communication, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW JG. Performed the experiments: TW JG AE RC. Analyzed the data: TW JG AE RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW AE RC. Wrote the paper: TW JG AE RC.