About the Authors

Mary Higby Schweitzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Alison E. Moyer, Peter Sjövall, Johan Lindgren

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

schweitzer@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Wenxia Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Alison E. Moyer, Peter Sjövall, Johan Lindgren

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Alison E. Moyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Alison E. Moyer, Peter Sjövall, Johan Lindgren

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter Sjövall

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Alison E. Moyer, Peter Sjövall, Johan Lindgren

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Chemistry and Materials, Borås, Sweden

Johan Lindgren

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Higby Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Alison E. Moyer, Peter Sjövall, Johan Lindgren

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.