About the Authors

Marta Colomer-Lluch

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Juan Jofre

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Maite Muniesa

mmuniesa@ub.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM JJ. Performed the experiments: MM MCLL. Analyzed the data: MCLL MM JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM JJ. Wrote the paper: MCLL MM JJ.