About the Authors

Lillian G. Acuña

Affiliations Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Juan Pablo Cárdenas

Affiliations Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Paulo C. Covarrubias

Affiliations Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Juan José Haristoy

Affiliation Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile

Rodrigo Flores

Affiliation Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile

Harold Nuñez

Affiliation Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile

Gonzalo Riadi

Affiliation Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile

Amir Shmaryahu

Affiliation Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile

Jorge Valdés

Affiliation Center for Systems Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Chile, Santiago, Chile

Mark Dopson

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Douglas E. Rawlings

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa

Jillian F. Banfield

Affiliation Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

David S. Holmes

Affiliations Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Raquel Quatrini

rquatrini@yahoo.com.ar

Affiliations Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RQ. Performed the experiments: LGA JPC PCC JJH RF GR. Analyzed the data: RQ DSH JFB DER MD JV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN AS MD DER. Wrote the paper: RQ LGA.