About the Authors

Antoine Buetti-Dinh

Contributed equally to this work with: Antoine Buetti-Dinh, Michela Ruinelli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

antoine.buetti@supsi.ch (ABD); mauro.tonolla@supsi.ch (MT)

Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Microbiology (LMA), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design (DACD), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michela Ruinelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Antoine Buetti-Dinh, Michela Ruinelli

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Microbiology (LMA), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design (DACD), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland

Dorota Czerski

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Trevano, Canobbio, Switzerland

Cristian Scapozza

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Trevano, Canobbio, Switzerland

Agathe Martignier

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Samuele Roman

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Microbiology (LMA), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design (DACD), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland, Alpine Biology Center Foundation, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Annapaola Caminada

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Microbiology (LMA), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design (DACD), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland

Mauro Tonolla

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

antoine.buetti@supsi.ch (ABD); mauro.tonolla@supsi.ch (MT)

Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Microbiology (LMA), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design (DACD), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Bellinzona, Switzerland, Alpine Biology Center Foundation, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Microbiology Unit, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.