Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits

• Susanne Menden-Deuer,

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

  Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI, United States of America

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• Julie Rowlett ,

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

  * E-mail: julie.rowlett@chalmers.se

  Affiliation Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University and the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5724-3252

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• Medet Nursultanov,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

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• Sinead Collins,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Tatiana Rynearson

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI, United States of America

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