About the Authors

Elisabeth Svensson

esvensson@pitt.edu (ES); stefan.schouten@nioz.nl (SS)

Current address: Department of Geology & Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg (Texel), The Netherlands

Stefan Schouten

esvensson@pitt.edu (ES); stefan.schouten@nioz.nl (SS)

Affiliations Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg (Texel), The Netherlands, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ellen C. Hopmans

Affiliation Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg (Texel), The Netherlands

Jack J. Middelburg

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

Affiliations Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg (Texel), The Netherlands, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES SS. Performed the experiments: ES. Analyzed the data: ES SS ECH JJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS ECH JSSD. Wrote the paper: ES SS ECH JJM JSSD.