About the Authors

Ramkumar Seenivasan

rseeniva@uni-koeln.de

Affiliation Department of Botany, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Nicole Sausen

Affiliation Department of Botany, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Linda K. Medlin

Affiliation Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, The Citadel, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Michael Melkonian

Affiliation Department of Botany, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS LKM MM. Performed the experiments: RS. Analyzed the data: RS NS MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LKM MM. Wrote the paper: RS LKM MM.