About the Authors
- Lucie Zinger
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Affiliation Microbial Habitat Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
- Linda A. Amaral-Zettler
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Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jed A. Fuhrman
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- M. Claire Horner-Devine
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Affiliation School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Susan M. Huse
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Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David B. Mark Welch
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Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jennifer B. H. Martiny
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Mitchell Sogin
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Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Antje Boetius
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Affiliations Microbial Habitat Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, HGF MPG Joint Research Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Alban Ramette
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* E-mail: aramette@mpi-bremen.de
Affiliations Microbial Habitat Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, HGF MPG Joint Research Group on Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ AB AR. Performed the experiments: LZ LAAZ SMH DBMW AR. Analyzed the data: LZ LAAZ SMH DBMW AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: LZ LAAZ JAF MCHD JBHM MS AB AR.