About the Authors

Neil Fernandes

Current address: School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliations The Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Peter Steinberg

Affiliations The Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Doug Rusch

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Staffan Kjelleberg

Affiliations The Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Torsten Thomas

t.thomas@unsw.edu.au

Affiliations The Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NF PS SK TT. Performed the experiments: NF TT. Analyzed the data: NF DR TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR. Wrote the paper: NF PS TT.