About the Authors
- Xiaobing Zhou
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Affiliations Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences,Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China
- Hilda Smith
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Affiliation U. S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT 84532, United States of America
- Ana Giraldo Silva
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Affiliations Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences,Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America, Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
- Jayne Belnap
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Affiliation U. S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT 84532, United States of America
- Ferran Garcia-Pichel
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* E-mail: ferran@asu.edu
Affiliations Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences,Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America, Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: XBZ FGP. Data curation: XBZ AGS. Formal analysis: XBZ HS. Funding acquisition: FGP. Investigation: XBZ HS AGS. Methodology: XBZ JB FGP. Project administration: XBZ FGP. Resources: FGP JB. Software: XBZ. Supervision: FGP. Validation: XBZ AGS. Writing – original draft: XBZ FGP. Writing – review & editing: AGS JB FGP.