Development of an autonomous biosampler to capture in situ aquatic microbiomes

• Hugo Ribeiro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

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

  * E-mail: hribeiro@ciimar.up.pt

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS-UP), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2087-8385

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• Alfredo Martins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

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

  Affiliations INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Marco Gonçalves ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal

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• Maurício Guedes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal

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• Maria Paola Tomasino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

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

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

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• Nuno Dias,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• André Dias,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-075X

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• Ana Paula Mucha,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

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• Maria F. Carvalho,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

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• C. Marisa R. Almeida,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal

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• Sandra Ramos,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

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• José Miguel Almeida,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Eduardo Silva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INESC TEC–INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Catarina Magalhães

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Ribeiro, Alfredo Martins, Marco Gonçalves, Maurício Guedes, Maria Paola Tomasino, Catarina Magalhães

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

  Affiliations CIIMAR–Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, Matosinhos, Portugal, FCUP–Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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