About the Authors

Markus Arnoldini

Affiliations Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Tobias Heck

Affiliation Laboratory for Biomaterials, Empa -Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Alfonso Blanco-Fernández

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Core Facilities, UCD-Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Frederik Hammes

frederik.hammes@eawag.ch

Affiliation Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA TH ABF FH. Performed the experiments: MA TH ABF FH. Analyzed the data: MA TH ABF FH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABF FH. Wrote the manuscript: MA TH ABF FH.