About the Authors

Fitnat Yildiz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Jiunn Fong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Irina Sadovskaya

Affiliation Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-sur-mer, France

Thierry Grard

Affiliation Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale, Boulogne-sur-mer, France

Evgeny Vinogradov

evguenii.vinogradov@nrc.ca

Affiliation National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EV FHY JF IS. Performed the experiments: EV JF IS. Analyzed the data: FHY EV JF IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG. Wrote the paper: EV FHY JF IS.