About the Authors

Cornelius Schmidtke

cornelius.schubert@genetik.uni-halle.de (CS); ulla.bonas@genetik.uni-halle.de (UB)

Affiliation Institute for Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Ulrike Abendroth

Affiliation Institute for Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Juliane Brock

Affiliation Institute for Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Javier Serrania

Affiliation Loewe Center for Synthetic Microbiology and Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Anke Becker

Affiliation Loewe Center for Synthetic Microbiology and Department of Biology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Ulla Bonas

cornelius.schubert@genetik.uni-halle.de (CS); ulla.bonas@genetik.uni-halle.de (UB)

Affiliation Institute for Biology, Department of Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS UA JB JS AB UB. Performed the experiments: CS UA JB JS. Analyzed the data: CS UA JB UB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: CS.