About the Authors

Yvonne Sawall

Current address: Research Unit Benthic Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Affiliation Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany

Claudio Richter

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Alban Ramette

aramette@mpi-bremen.de

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS CR. Performed the experiments: YS. Analyzed the data: YS AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS CR AR. Wrote the paper: YS CR AR.