About the Authors

Moritz Holtappels

mholtapp@mpi-bremen.de

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Laura Tiano

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Tim Kalvelage

Affiliations Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Gaute Lavik

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Niels Peter Revsbech

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Marcel M. M. Kuypers

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, 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: MMMK NPR GL TK MH LT. Performed the experiments: MH LT TK. Analyzed the data: MH LT TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NPR MMMK. Wrote the paper: MH LT TK.