About the Authors

Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen

Affiliations Department of Geochemistry, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Section for Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Zhuofei Xu

Affiliation Section for Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Erkin Gözdereliler

Affiliation Department of Geochemistry, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jens Aamand

Affiliation Department of Geochemistry, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Hestbjerg Hansen

lhha@dmu.dk

Current address: ENVS - Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Affiliation Section for Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sebastian R. Sørensen

Affiliation Department of Geochemistry, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TKN ZX JA SRS LHH. Performed the experiments: TKN ZX. Analyzed the data: TKN ZX EG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LHH JA SRS. Wrote the paper: TKN.