About the Authors

Santiago Cadena

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

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Claudia Teutli-Hernández

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatan, Mexico

Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

Luisa I. Falcón

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Mexico

Brad M. Bebout

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exobiology Branch, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

José Q. García-Maldonado

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jose.garcia@cinvestav.mx

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.