About the Authors
- Douglas B Rusch
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: DRusch@venterinstitute.org
Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Aaron L Halpern
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Granger Sutton
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Karla B Heidelberg
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Avalon, California, United States of America
- Shannon Williamson
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Shibu Yooseph
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Dongying Wu
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Jonathan A Eisen
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Jeff M Hoffman
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Karin Remington
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Your Genome, Your World, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Karen Beeson
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Bao Tran
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Hamilton Smith
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Holly Baden-Tillson
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Clare Stewart
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Joyce Thorpe
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Jason Freeman
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Joseph E Venter
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Kelvin Li
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Saul Kravitz
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- John F Heidelberg
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Avalon, California, United States of America
- Terry Utterback
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Yu-Hui Rogers
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Luisa I Falcón
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Affiliation Departmento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Valeria Souza
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Affiliation Departmento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Germán Bonilla-Rosso
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Affiliation Departmento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- Luis E Eguiarte
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Affiliation Departmento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
- David M Karl
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Affiliation Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Shubha Sathyendranath
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Affiliation Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Trevor Platt
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Affiliation Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Eldredge Bermingham
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Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama
- Victor Gallardo
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Affiliation Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
- Giselle Tamayo-Castillo
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Affiliation Escuela de Química, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica
- Michael R Ferrari
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
- Robert L Strausberg
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Kenneth Nealson
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Affiliations J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angles, California, United States of America
- Robert Friedman
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Marvin Frazier
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- J. Craig Venter
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Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
DBR, ALH, KB, HS, CAP, JFH, MF, and JCV conceived and designed the experiments. DBR, ALH, JMH, KB, BT, HBT, CS, JT, JF, CAP, and JCV performed the experiments. DBR, ALH, GS, KBH, SW, DW, JAE, KR, JEV, TU, YHR, MRF, KN, and RF analyzed the data. DBR, ALH, GS, KBH, SY, JMH, KR, KB, BT, HS, HBT, CS, JT, JF, CAP, KL, SK, JFH, TU, YHR, LIF, VS, GBR, LEE, DMK, SS, TP, EB, VG, GTC, MRF, RLS, MF, and JCV contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. DBR, ALH, GS, KBH, SW, SY, JAE, RLS, KN, RF, MF, and JCV wrote the paper.