About the Authors

Pavlo Ardanov

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Angela Sessitsch

Affiliation Bioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln, Austria

Hely Häggman

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Natalia Kozyrovska

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine

Anna Maria Pirttilä

am.pirttila@oulu.fi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PA HH NK AMP. Performed the experiments: PA. Analyzed the data: PA AS NK AMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS HH NK AMP. Wrote the paper: PA AS HH NK AMP.