About the Authors

George A. Schaible

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Zackary J. Jay

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

John Cliff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: National Security Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Frederik Schulz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Colin Gauvin

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliations Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Danielle Goudeau

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Rex R. Malmstrom

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

S. Emil Ruff

Roles Investigation

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

Virginia Edgcomb

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roland Hatzenpichler

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

roland.hatzenpichler@montana.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.