About the Authors
- Jimmy H. W. Saw
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Current address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America
- Michael Schatz
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Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
- Mark V. Brown
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Affiliations NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Dennis D. Kunkel
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Affiliation Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc., Kailua, Hawai'i, United States of America
- Jamie S. Foster
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida Space Life Science Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy, Florida, United States of America
- Harry Shick
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Affiliation Kea'au, Hawai'i, United States of America
- Stephanie Christensen
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Affiliation Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'I, United States of America
- Shaobin Hou
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America, Advanced Studies of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America
- Xuehua Wan
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America, Advanced Studies of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America
- Stuart P. Donachie
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* E-mail: donachie@hawaii.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dennis Kunkel is the owner of Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JS SD. Performed the experiments: JS MB DK JF HS SC SH XW SD. Analyzed the data: JS MS SC SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK. Wrote the paper: JS SD. Conducted fieldwork: JS HS MB JF SD.