About the Authors

Philipp Rausch

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Rausch, Natalie Steck

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Natalie Steck

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Rausch, Natalie Steck

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Abdulhadi Suwandi

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Janice A. Seidel

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Sven Künzel

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Kirandeep Bhullar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marijana Basic

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andre Bleich

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jill M. Johnsen

Affiliations Research Institute, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Bruce A. Vallance

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Child and Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John F. Baines

baines@evolbio.mpg.de (JFB); grassl.guntram@mh-hannover.de (GAG)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Guntram A. Grassl

baines@evolbio.mpg.de (JFB); grassl.guntram@mh-hannover.de (GAG)

Current Address: Present address: Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hannover, Germany

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Models of Inflammation, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFB GAG NS PR AS. Performed the experiments: NS AS JAS SK KB GAG. Analyzed the data: PR NS AS JAS KB BAV JFB GAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB AB JMJ BAV. Wrote the paper: PR NS JFB GAG AS JMJ BAV MB AB.