About the Authors

Madison C. Davis

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

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Maria A. Messina

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Speleologico Etneo, Catania, Italy

Giuseppe Nicolosi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro Speleologico Etneo, Catania, Italy, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Salvatore Petralia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro Speleologico Etneo, Catania, Italy, Applied Chemical Works, Paternò (Ct), Italy

Melvin D. Baker IV

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Christiana K. S. Mayne

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Chelsea M. Dinon

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Christina J. Moss

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Bogdan P. Onac

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

Affiliation Karst Research Group, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

James R. Garey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

garey@usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.