About the Authors
- Bettina Siebers
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* E-mail: bettina.siebers@uni-due.de (BS); melanie.zaparty@vkl.uni-regensburg.de (MZ)
Affiliation Faculty of Chemistry, Biofilm Centre, Molecular Enzyme Technology and Biochemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Melanie Zaparty
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* E-mail: bettina.siebers@uni-due.de (BS); melanie.zaparty@vkl.uni-regensburg.de (MZ)
Affiliation Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Guenter Raddatz
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Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
- Britta Tjaden
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Affiliation Prokaryotic RNA Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Sonja-Verena Albers
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Affiliation Molecular Biology of Archaea, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Steve D. Bell
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Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Fabian Blombach
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Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Arnulf Kletzin
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Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
- Nikos Kyrpides
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Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Christa Lanz
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Affiliation Genome Centre, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
- André Plagens
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Affiliation Prokaryotic RNA Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Markus Rampp
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Affiliation Computer Centre Garching of the Max-Planck-Society (RZG), Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, München, Germany
- Andrea Rosinus
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Affiliation Genome Centre, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany
- Mathias von Jan
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Affiliation DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
- Kira S. Makarova
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Hans-Peter Klenk
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Affiliation DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
- Stephan C. Schuster
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Affiliation Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Reinhard Hensel
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Affiliation Prokaryotic RNA Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BS HPK RH SCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GR HPK KSM MR NK SCS. Wrote the paper: BS MZ RH. Annotated genome and wrote parts of subject area: AK AP BS BT FB GR HPK KSM MJ MR MZ RH SCS SDB SVA. Annotated genome: AR CL.