Searching for new plastic-degrading enzymes from the plastisphere of alpine soils using a metagenomic mining approach

• Beat Frey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: beat.frey@wsl.ch

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6391-3574

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• Margherita Aiesi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Facoltà de Science Agrarie e Alimentari, University Degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

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• Basil M. Rast,

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

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1723-3938

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• Joel Rüthi,

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

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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• Jérôme Julmi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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• Beat Stierli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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• Weihong Qi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Functional Genomics Center Zürich, ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8581-908X

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• Ivano Brunner

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3436-995X

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