About the Authors

Manuel Martinez-Garcia

Current address: Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Alicante (Spain)

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

David M. Brazel

Affiliations Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America, Colby College, Waterville, Main, United States of America

Brandon K. Swan

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Carol Arnosti

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Patrick S. G. Chain

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Krista G. Reitenga

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Gary Xie

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Nicole J. Poulton

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Monica Lluesma Gomez

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Dashiell E. D. Masland

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Brian Thompson

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Wendy K. Bellows

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Kai Ziervogel

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Chien-Chi Lo

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Sanaa Ahmed

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Cheryl D. Gleasner

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Chris J. Detter

Affiliations Genome Science Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Microbial and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of Aemerica

Ramunas Stepanauskas

rstepanauskas@bigelow.org

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Main, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS MM. Performed the experiments: RS MM NP PC. Analyzed the data: MM RS PC CA DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS CA PC KR GX MLG NP DM BT WB KZ CL SA CG CD. Wrote the paper: MM RS DB PC CA BS NP.