Giant sulfur bacteria (Beggiatoaceae) from sediments underlying the Benguela upwelling system host diverse microbiomes

• Beverly E. Flood ,

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

  * E-mail: beflood@umn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2973-043X

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• Deon C. Louw,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation National Marine Information and Research Centre, Swakopmund, Namibia

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• Anja K. Van der Plas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation National Marine Information and Research Centre, Swakopmund, Namibia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2330-6689

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• Jake V. Bailey

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

  Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, United States of America

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