Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Provides Insight into Microbial Pathways and Stress Responses in the Saline Qinghai Lake, China

• Qiuyuan Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qiuyuan Huang, Brandon R. Briggs

  Affiliations Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Brandon R. Briggs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qiuyuan Huang, Brandon R. Briggs

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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• Hailiang Dong ,

  * E-mail: dongh@miamioh.edu

  Affiliations Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

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• Hongchen Jiang,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

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• Geng Wu,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

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• Christian Edwardson,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Iwijn De Vlaminck,

  Affiliation Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Stephen Quake

  Affiliation Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

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