About the Authors

Magdalena Plotka

Affiliation Laboratory of Extremophiles Biology, Department of Microbiology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Mateusz Wozniak

Affiliation Laboratory of Extremophiles Biology, Department of Microbiology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Tadeusz Kaczorowski

tadeusz.kaczorowski@biol.ug.edu.pl

Affiliation Laboratory of Extremophiles Biology, Department of Microbiology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MP TK. Data curation: MP TK. Formal analysis: MP TK. Funding acquisition: TK. Investigation: MP MW. Methodology: MP TK. Project administration: MP TK. Resources: TK. Supervision: TK. Validation: MP TK. Visualization: MP TK. Writing – original draft: MP TK. Writing – review & editing: MP TK.