Unique Prokaryotic Consortia in Geochemically Distinct Sediments from Red Sea Atlantis II and Discovery Deep Brine Pools

• Rania Siam ,

  * E-mail: rsiam@aucegypt.edu

  Affiliations Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Biology, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, The Science and Technology Research Center, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ghada A. Mustafa,

  Affiliations Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, The Science and Technology Research Center, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Hazem Sharaf,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ahmed Moustafa,

  Affiliations Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Biology, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Adham R. Ramadan,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Andre Antunes,

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Vladimir B. Bajic,

  Affiliation Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Uli Stingl,

  Affiliation Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Nardine G. R. Marsis,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Marco J. L. Coolen,

  Affiliation Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mitchell Sogin,

  Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ari J. S. Ferreira,

  Affiliations Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Biology, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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• Hamza El Dorry

  Affiliations Biotechnology Graduate Program, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Biology, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, The Science and Technology Research Center, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

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