About the Authors

Tim Urich

Affiliations Centre of Geobiology, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Genetics in Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Anders Lanzén

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Ji Qi

Affiliation Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daniel H. Huson

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany

Christa Schleper

Christa.Schleper@univie.ac.at (CS); scs@bx.psu.edu (SS)

Affiliations Centre of Geobiology, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Genetics in Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stephan C. Schuster

Christa.Schleper@univie.ac.at (CS); scs@bx.psu.edu (SS)

Affiliation Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS TU CS. Performed the experiments: TU. Analyzed the data: TU AL CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS DH JQ TU AL. Wrote the paper: SS TU AL CS.