About the Authors

Marie L. Cuvelier

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie L. Cuvelier, Jian Guo

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States of America

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, United States of America

Jian Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie L. Cuvelier, Jian Guo

Current address: Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, United States of America

Alejandra C. Ortiz

Current address: Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States of America

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, United States of America

Marijke J. van Baren

Affiliation Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, United States of America

Muhammad Akram Tariq

Current address: School of Health Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Affiliation Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Frédéric Partensky

Affiliation Sorbonne Universités—UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS UMR, Station Biologique, CS, Roscoff, France

Alexandra Z. Worden

azworden@mbari.org

Affiliations Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA, United States of America, Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLC AZW. Data curation: MLC MJvB AZW. Formal analysis: JG MLC MJvB AZW. Funding acquisition: AZW. Investigation: MLC ACO MAT. Methodology: MLC ACO AZW. Project administration: MLC AZW. Supervision: MLC AZW. Validation: JG MLC MJvB. Visualization: JG MLC AZW. Writing – original draft: MLC JG AZW FP. Writing – review & editing: FP ACO MJvB.