About the Authors

Hande Mumcu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hande Mumcu, Julian Zaugg

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Dr. Orhan Öcalgiray Molecular Biology-Biotechnology and Genetics Research Center, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Julian Zaugg

Contributed equally to this work with: Hande Mumcu, Julian Zaugg

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

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Irem Keles

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Dr. Orhan Öcalgiray Molecular Biology-Biotechnology and Genetics Research Center, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Aycan Kayrav

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Dr. Orhan Öcalgiray Molecular Biology-Biotechnology and Genetics Research Center, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Nurgul Balci

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geomicrobiology-Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

David R. Nelson

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Philip Hugenholtz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Elizabeth M. J. Gillam

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Nevin Gul Karaguler

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

karaguler@itu.edu.tr

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Dr. Orhan Öcalgiray Molecular Biology-Biotechnology and Genetics Research Center, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.