About the Authors

Kristen M. DeAngelis

Kristen@post.harvard.edu

Affiliations Earth Sciences Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Microbial Communities Group, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Martin Allgaier

Current address: Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Affiliations Microbial Communities Group, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Microbial Ecology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Yaucin Chavarria

Affiliation Earth Sciences Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Julian L. Fortney

Affiliation Earth Sciences Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Phillip Hugenholtz

Affiliations Microbial Communities Group, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Microbial Ecology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Blake Simmons

Affiliations Microbial Communities Group, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Sandia National Lab, Livermore, California, United States of America

Kerry Sublette

Affiliation Center for Applied Biogeosciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

Whendee L. Silver

Affiliations Earth Sciences Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley California, United States of America

Terry C. Hazen

Affiliations Earth Sciences Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Microbial Communities Group, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMD WLS TCH. Performed the experiments: KMD MA YC JLF. Analyzed the data: KMD MA PH WLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMD MA PH BS KS WLS TCH. Wrote the paper: KMD MA WLS TCH.