About the Authors

Paltu Kumar Dhal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

paltuk.dhal@jadavpuruniversity.in

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Germán A. Kopprio

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry and Geology, Tropical Marine Microbiology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany

Astrid Gärdes

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry and Geology, Tropical Marine Microbiology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.