About the Authors

Weiguo Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiguo Hou, Shang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Shang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Weiguo Hou, Shang Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Hailiang Dong

dongh@cugb.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Hongchen Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Brandon R. Briggs

Affiliation Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Joseph P. Peacock

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Qiuyuan Huang

Affiliation Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Liuqin Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and Institute of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

Geng Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Xiaoyang Zhi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China of Ministry of Education and Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources of Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Wenjun Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China of Ministry of Education and Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources of Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Jeremy A. Dodsworth

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Brian P. Hedlund

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Chuanlun Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, School of Ocean of Earth Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Department of Marine Sciences, the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Hilairy E. Hartnett

Affiliation School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Paul Dijkstra

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Bruce A. Hungate

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HD CZ BPH WH SW HJ. Performed the experiments: SW WH LH GW WL BPH HD HEH PD BAH. Analyzed the data: SW WH HD HJ BRB JPP QH XZ JAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HD HJ HEH PD BAH CZ. Wrote the paper: WH SW HD BPH HJ CZ.