About the Authors

Sebastian Schmidt

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Christian Berens

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Marcus Klotzsche

mklotz@biologie.uni-erlangen.de

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Department Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: MK SS. Wrote the paper: MK CB.