About the Authors

William P. Inskeep

binskeep@montana.edu (WPI); drusch@jcvi.org (DBR)

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Douglas B. Rusch

binskeep@montana.edu (WPI); drusch@jcvi.org (DBR)

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Zackary J. Jay

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Markus J. Herrgard

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark A. Kozubal

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Toby H. Richardson

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Richard E. Macur

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Natsuko Hamamura

Affiliation Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Ryan deM. Jennings

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Bruce W. Fouke

Affiliation University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Anna-Louise Reysenbach

Affiliation Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

Frank Roberto

Affiliation Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States of America

Mark Young

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Ariel Schwartz

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eric S. Boyd

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Jonathan H. Badger

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Eric J. Mathur

Affiliation Synthetic Genomics Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alice C. Ortmann

Affiliation Department of Marine Science, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Mary Bateson

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Gill Geesey

Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Marvin Frazier

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WPI BWF ALR FFR EJM MEF. Performed the experiments: WPI DBR ZJ MAK REM NH BWF. Analyzed the data: WPI DBR ZJ MJH MAK THR REM NH RdJ ALR FFR MY ASS ESB JHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPI DBR MJH THR MY ACO MMB GG. Wrote the paper: WPI DBR MJH MAK THR RdJ BWF ALR FFR ASS ESB.