About the Authors

Denis V. Tikhonenkov

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Soo Hwan Jhin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do Island and Kyungpook Institute of Oceanography, School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Yana Eglit

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Kai Miller

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Andrey Plotnikov

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Shared Scientific Equipment “Persistence of Microorganisms”, Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis UB RAS, Orenburg, Russia

Alastair G. B. Simpson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Diversity, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jong Soo Park

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jongsoopark@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do Island and Kyungpook Institute of Oceanography, School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.