About the Authors

Frank Maixner

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Maixner, Anton Thomma, Thomas Rattei, Albert Zink

frank.maixner@eurac.edu

Affiliation Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

Anton Thomma

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Maixner, Anton Thomma, Thomas Rattei, Albert Zink

Affiliation CUBE - Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Giovanna Cipollini

Affiliation Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

Stefanie Widder

Affiliation CUBE - Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Rattei

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Maixner, Anton Thomma, Thomas Rattei, Albert Zink

Affiliation CUBE - Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Albert Zink

Contributed equally to this work with: Frank Maixner, Anton Thomma, Thomas Rattei, Albert Zink

Affiliation CUBE - Division of Computational Systems Biology, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

¶ These authors also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM AT SW TR AZ. Performed the experiments: FM AT GC. Analyzed the data: FM AT TR. Wrote the paper: FM AT TR AZ.