About the Authors

Nancy Weiland-Bräuer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Kiel University, Institute for General Microbiology, Kiel, Germany

Irene Malek

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Kiel University, Institute for General Microbiology, Kiel, Germany

Ruth A. Schmitz

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

rschmitz@ifam.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Kiel University, Institute for General Microbiology, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.