Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA. alison.murray@dri.edu.
• ² Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
• ³ Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biofilm Engineering, and Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
• ⁵ Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁶ Department of Applied Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁷ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
• ¹⁰ Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, CSIC-UIB, Illes Balears, Spain.
• ¹¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• ¹² Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ¹⁵ Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciènces del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁷ Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
• ¹⁹ CEA Technological Innovations for Detection and Diagnosis Laboratory, CEA Pharmacology and Immunoanalysis Unit (SPI), Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France.
• ²⁰ Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ²² Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences and Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• ²³ Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• ²⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
• ²⁵ University of the West of England, Bristol, England.
• ²⁶ Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA.
• ²⁷ Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
• ²⁸ Microbiology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
• ²⁹ National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
• ³⁰ Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ³¹ National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, Peoria, IL, USA.
• ³² Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
• ³³ Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
• ³⁴ Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• ³⁵ LS2N, Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France.
• ³⁶ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ³⁷ GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, RD3-Marine Ecology, RU-Marine Microbiology, Kiel, Germany.
• ³⁸ Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
• ³⁹ Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
• ⁴¹ School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁴² School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁴³ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
• ⁴⁵ Departments of Microbiology and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
• ⁴⁶ Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ⁴⁸ Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• ⁴⁹ Research Center for Bioscience and Nanoscience (CeBN), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan.
• ⁵⁰ School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• ⁵¹ Astrobiology Center (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain.
• ⁵² National Biotechnology Center, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁵³ Department of Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁵⁴ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Research Group, Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, Zürich University for Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland.
• ⁵⁵ Departments of Microbiology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
• ⁵⁶ Department for Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, the Netherlands.
• ⁵⁷ Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• ⁵⁸ Center for Microbial Ecology, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
• ⁵⁹ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
• ⁶⁰ Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁶¹ International Center for Deep Life Investigation, School of Oceanography and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁶² Ribocon GmbH, Bremen, Germany.
• ⁶³ School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA. brian.hedlund@unlv.edu.
• ⁶⁴ Biology Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. bwar@pdx.edu.