About the Authors

Christian Winter

christian.winter@univie.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Juan A. L. Garcia

Affiliation Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Markus G. Weinbauer

Affiliations Observatoire océanologique, Sorbonne Universités, Villefranche/mer, France, Observatoire océanologique, CNRS UMR 7093, Villefranche/mer, France

Michael S. DuBow

Affiliation Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Gerhard J. Herndl

Affiliations Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW MGW MSD GJH. Analyzed the data: CW JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGW GJH. Wrote the paper: CW.