MARIO K. C. KRESPACH
Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural
Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Jena, Germany
Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
ANTJE LABES
Flensburg University of Applied Science, Flensburg, Germany
LUISA LANFRANCO
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Universita ` di Torino,
Torino, Italy
LUIS F. LARRONDO
Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio), Santiago, Chile
Departamento de Gene ´tica Molecular y Microbiologı ´a, Facultad de Ciencias
Biolo ´gicas, Pontificia Universidad Cato ´lica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
ZACHARY A. LEWIS
Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
YUANFEI LI
Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University,
Nanjing, China
DIETHARD MATTANOVICH
Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB GmbH), Vienna, Austria
CINDY MEISTER
Institut fu ¨r Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Abteilung Molekulare Mikrobiologie und
Genetik, Go ¨ttinger Zentrum fu ¨r Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB), GeorgAugust-Universita ¨t Go ¨ttingen, Go ¨ttingen, Germany
UFFE H. MORTENSEN
Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
LAURA MURCIA
Departamento de Gene ´tica y Microbiologı ´a, Facultad de Biologı ´a, Universidad de
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
MAGDALENA NAGLER
Institute of Microbiology, Universita ¨t Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
EUSEBIO NAVARRO
Departamento de Gene ´tica y Microbiologı ´a, Facultad de Biologı ´a, Universidad de
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
FRANCISCO E. NICOLA ´ S
Departamento de Gene ´tica y Microbiologı ´a, Facultad de Biologı ´a, Universidad de
Murcia, Murcia, Spain
ROBIN A. OHM
Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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