About the Authors

Thomas Brefort

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Brefort, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nina Neidig, Gunther Doehlemann

Current address: Comprehensive Biomarker Center GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

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

Shigeyuki Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Brefort, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nina Neidig, Gunther Doehlemann

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

Nina Neidig

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Brefort, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nina Neidig, Gunther Doehlemann

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

Gunther Doehlemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Brefort, Shigeyuki Tanaka, Nina Neidig, Gunther Doehlemann

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

Volker Vincon

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, 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: TB ST NN GD RK. Performed the experiments: TB ST NN GD VV. Analyzed the data: TB ST NN GD RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB ST NN GD VV RK. Wrote the paper: TB ST NN GD RK.