About the Authors

Diego Javier Jiménez

djimenez1909@gmail.com

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Department of Microbial Ecology, Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (CEES), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Fernando Dini Andreote

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

Diego Chaves

Affiliation Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia

José Salvador Montaña

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Departamento de Biología, Unidad de Saneamiento y Biotecnología Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Cesar Osorio-Forero

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Molecular Genetics and Microbial Ecology Research Groups, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia

Howard Junca

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Molecular Genetics and Microbial Ecology Research Groups, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia

María Mercedes Zambrano

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Molecular Genetics and Microbial Ecology Research Groups, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia

Sandra Baena

Affiliations Colombian Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Bogotá, Colombia, Departamento de Biología, Unidad de Saneamiento y Biotecnología Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJJ FDA HJ MMZ SB. Performed the experiments: DJJ DC JSM COF. Analyzed the data: DJJ FDA DC MMZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJJ HJ MMZ SB. Wrote the paper: DJJ FDA HJ MMZ SB.