About the Authors

Katharina Palmer

Current address: Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Research Group, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Affiliation Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Marcus A. Horn

marcus.horn@uni-bayreuth.de

Affiliation Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP MAH. Performed the experiments: KP. Analyzed the data: KP MAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAH. Wrote the paper: KP MAH.