About the Authors

Anders K. Krabberød

Contributed equally to this work with: Anders K. Krabberød, Jon Bråte

Affiliation Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jon Bråte

Contributed equally to this work with: Anders K. Krabberød, Jon Bråte

Affiliation Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jane K. Dolven

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Randi F. Ose

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Dag Klaveness

Affiliation Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Tom Kristensen

Affiliations Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Kjell R. Bjørklund

Affiliations Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi

Kamran@bio.uio.no

Affiliation Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS-T KRB TK. Performed the experiments: JB AKK RFO KRB. Analyzed the data: JB AKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK KRB KS-T TK. Wrote the paper: AKK JB KS-T JKD KRB. Obtained permissions to sample: KRB.