About the Authors

Etienne Slabbert

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Shayne Martin Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Karin Jacobs

kj@sun.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES SMJ KJ. Performed the experiments: ES SMJ. Analyzed the data: ES KJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMJ KJ. Wrote the paper: ES.