Diversity and shifts of the bacterial community associated with Baikal sponge mass mortalities

• Sergei Belikov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

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

  * E-mail: sergeibelikov47@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7206-8299

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• Natalia Belkova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

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• Tatiana Butina ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

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• Lubov Chernogor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

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• Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States of America

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• Armen Nalian ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States of America

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• Colin Rorex ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States of America

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• Igor Khanaev ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-2765

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• Olga Maikova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

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• Sergey Feranchuk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sergei Belikov, Natalia Belkova, Tatiana Butina, Lubov Chernogor, Igor Khanaev, Olga Maikova, Sergey Feranchuk

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Analytical Bioorganic Chemistry, Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia, Department of Informatics, National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russia

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