About the Authors
- Shaomei He
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Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Natalia Ivanova
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Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Edward Kirton
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Affiliation US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Martin Allgaier
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Affiliations US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
- Claudia Bergin
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Rudolf H. Scheffrahn
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Affiliation Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Davie, Florida, United States of America
- Nikos C. Kyrpides
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Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Falk Warnecke
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Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Susannah G. Tringe
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Affiliation US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
- Philip Hugenholtz
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* E-mail: p.hugenholtz@uq.edu.au
Affiliations Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences & Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Involved in discussion of the results and provided feedback on the manuscript: SH NI EK MA CB RHS NCK FW SGT PH.. Conceived and designed the experiments: PH FW NI NCK. Performed the experiments: FW MA CB RHS PH. Analyzed the data: SH NI EK MA. Wrote the paper: SH SGT PH.