About the Authors

Carla G. Leon

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Ruben Moraga

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Arturo Prat University, Iquique, Chile

Cristian Valenzuela

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Concetta Gugliandolo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Angelina Lo Giudice

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, Institute for the Coastal Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAMC-CNR), Messina, Italy

Maria Papale

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Claudia Vilo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Qunfeng Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Carlos T. Smith

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Ramon Rossello-Mora

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Marine Microbiology Group, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avancats (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain

Jorge Yañez

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile

Victor L. Campos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vcampos@udec.cl

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.