Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems at La Brava, a hypersaline lake at Salar de Atacama, Chile

• Maria Eugenia Farias ,

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

  * E-mail: mefarias2009@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigaciones Microbiológicas de Lagunas Andinas (LIMLA), Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI), CCT-Tucumán, CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2771-8915

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• Maria Cecilia Rasuk,

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

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigaciones Microbiológicas de Lagunas Andinas (LIMLA), Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI), CCT-Tucumán, CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina

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• Kimberley L. Gallagher,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Manuel Contreras,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Centro de Ecología Aplicada (CEA), Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

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• Daniel Kurth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigaciones Microbiológicas de Lagunas Andinas (LIMLA), Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI), CCT-Tucumán, CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina

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• Ana Beatriz Fernandez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigaciones Microbiológicas de Lagunas Andinas (LIMLA), Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI), CCT-Tucumán, CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina

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• Daniel Poiré,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-Conicet, La Plata, Argentina

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• Fernando Novoa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Centro de Ecología Aplicada (CEA), Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

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• Pieter T. Visscher

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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