About the Authors
- Alexander J. Probst
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander J. Probst, Giovanni Birarda
Affiliations Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Department for Bioinformatics, Second Genome Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Giovanni Birarda
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander J. Probst, Giovanni Birarda
Affiliation Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Hoi-Ying N. Holman
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Affiliation Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Todd Z. DeSantis
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Affiliation Department for Bioinformatics, Second Genome Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Gerhard Wanner
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Affiliation Department of Biology I, Biozentrum, LMU Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Gary L. Andersen
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Affiliation Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Alexandra K. Perras
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Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Sandra Meck
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Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Jörg Völkel
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Affiliation Department of Geomorphology and Soil Science, Technische Universität München, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany
- Hans A. Bechtel
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Affiliation Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Reinhard Wirth
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Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Christine Moissl-Eichinger
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* E-mail: christine.moissl-eichinger@ur.de
Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Competing Interests
TZD and AJP are paid employees of Second Genome, Inc. (www.secondgenome.com), patent on PhyloChip G3 pending. This does not alter adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Second Genome is a gastrointestinal therapeutics company with a pipeline of intestinal microbiome modulators that impact metabolic diseases and IBD. The publication of archaeal microbiome dynamics in sulfidic groundwater does not influence the value of any of Second Genome's therapeutic assets.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AJP GB H-YNH CM-E. Performed the experiments: AJP GB GW AKP SM CM-E. Analyzed the data: AJP GB TZD GW JV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GLA TZD HAB RW. Wrote the paper: AJP GB H-YNH CM-E.