Contrasting Microbial Community Assembly Hypotheses: A Reconciling Tale from the Río Tinto

• Carmen Palacios,

  Current address: UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Mediterraneenne, Equipe de Parasitologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Universite de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France

  Affiliations The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, Marine Biological Laboratory NASA Astrobiology Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Erik Zettler,

  Affiliations Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ricardo Amils,

  Affiliations Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain

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• Linda Amaral-Zettler

  * E-mail: amaral@mbl.edu

  Affiliations The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, Marine Biological Laboratory NASA Astrobiology Institute, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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