About the Authors

Nico J. Claassens

Contributed equally to this work with: Nico J. Claassens, Melvin F. Siliakus

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

nicoclaassens@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Melvin F. Siliakus

Contributed equally to this work with: Nico J. Claassens, Melvin F. Siliakus

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, ′t Horntje Texel, The Netherlands

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sebastiaan K. Spaans

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Sjoerd C. A. Creutzburg

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Bart Nijsse

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Peter J. Schaap

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Tessa E. F. Quax

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut für Biologie II, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

John van der Oost

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.