Energy-saving pretreatments affect pelagic Sargassum composition and DNA metabarcoding reveals the microbial community involved in methane yield

• Enrique Salgado-Hernández ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: henrysh22@gmail.com

  Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-9913

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• Ángel Isauro Ortiz-Ceballos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8700-4503

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• Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman, Sergio Martínez-Hernández, Erik Samuel Rosas-Mendoza

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

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• Sergio Martínez-Hernández ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman, Sergio Martínez-Hernández, Erik Samuel Rosas-Mendoza

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

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• Erik Samuel Rosas-Mendoza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Alvarado-Lassman, Sergio Martínez-Hernández, Erik Samuel Rosas-Mendoza

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CONACYT-Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

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• Jesús Bernardino Velázquez-Fernández ,

  Roles Software, Validation

  ¶‡ VF and AEDA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation CONACYT-Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

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• Ana Elena Dorantes-Acosta

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VF and AEDA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0611-8758

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