About the Authors

Marie Tollot

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

Daniela Assmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

Christian Becker

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Janine Altmüller

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Julien Y. Dutheil

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Research Group Molecular Systems Evolution, Plön, Germany

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

Carl-Eric Wegner

Current address: Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Deparment of Biogeochemistry, Marburg, Germany

Regine Kahmann

kahmann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT RK. Performed the experiments: MT DA CB. Analyzed the data: JYD CEW MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA. Wrote the paper: MT RK.