About the Authors
- Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Olga Pantos
*E-mail: Elizabeth_dinsdale@hotmail.com (ED); frohwer@gmail.com (FR)
Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Olga Pantos
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Olga Pantos
Current address: Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Steven Smriga
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Robert A. Edwards
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Affiliations Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, Illinois, United States of America
- Florent Angly
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Linda Wegley
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Mark Hatay
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Dana Hall
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Elysa Brown
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Matthew Haynes
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Lutz Krause
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Affiliation Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- Enric Sala
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Stuart A. Sandin
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Rebecca Vega Thurber
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Bette L. Willis
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Affiliation Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Farooq Azam
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Nancy Knowlton
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Forest Rohwer
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*E-mail: Elizabeth_dinsdale@hotmail.com (ED); frohwer@gmail.com (FR)
Affiliations Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FR ED OP ES SS. Performed the experiments: SS MH FR OP RE EB RV MH. Analyzed the data: ED RE FA DH LK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR LW. Wrote the paper: FR ED. Other: Expedition organizer: SS. Commented on paper: NK. Contributed to design: FA. Supported field work for ED: BW. Organized expedition: ES.