About the Authors

Lina De Smet

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina De Smet, Dieter De Koker

Affiliation Ghent University, Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Department of Physiology, Ghent, Belgium

Dieter De Koker

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina De Smet, Dieter De Koker

† Deceased.

Affiliation Ghent University, Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Department of Physiology, Ghent, Belgium

Alyse K. Hawley

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Vancouver, Canada

Leonard J. Foster

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Vancouver, Canada

Paul De Vos

Affiliation Ghent University, Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent, Belgium

Dirk C. de Graaf

Dirk.deGraaf@UGent.be

Affiliation Ghent University, Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Department of Physiology, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDS DDK PDV DCDG. Performed the experiments: LDS DDK. Analyzed the data: LDS DDK AKH LJF. Wrote the paper: LDS DDK LJF PDV DCDG.