About the Authors

Petra Pop Ristova

pristova@marum.de (PPR); Antje.Boetius@awi.de (AB)

Current address: Hydrothermal Geomicrobiology Group, MARUM ‒ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Christina Bienhold

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Frank Wenzhöfer

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Pamela E. Rossel

Affiliations HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Research Group for Marine Geochemistry (ICBM-MPI Bridging group), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the marine environment, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Oldenburg, Germany

Antje Boetius

pristova@marum.de (PPR); Antje.Boetius@awi.de (AB)

Affiliation HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AB. Data curation: PPR. Formal analysis: PPR PR. Funding acquisition: AB. Investigation: PPR CB FW AB. Methodology: PPR CB FW PR AB. Project administration: AB. Resources: AB. Supervision: AB. Validation: PPR. Visualization: PPR CB PR. Writing – original draft: PPR AB CB PR. Writing – review & editing: PPR CB AB FW.