About the Authors

Andrea Koerdt

Affiliation Molecular Biology of Archaea, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Julia Gödeke

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

Jürgen Berger

Affiliation Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Kai M. Thormann

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

Sonja-Verena Albers

albers@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Molecular Biology of Archaea, 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: AK SVA. Performed the experiments: AK JG JB. Analyzed the data: SVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JG. Wrote the paper: KMT SVA.