About the Authors

Gunther Doehlemann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Karina van der Linde

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Daniela Aßmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Daniela Schwammbach

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Alexander Hof

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Amitabh Mohanty

Current address: DuPont Knowledge Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapally, Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

David Jackson

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Regine Kahmann

kahmann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD RK. Performed the experiments: GD KvdL DA DS AH. Analyzed the data: GD RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM DJ. Wrote the paper: GD RK.