What defines a photosynthetic microbial mat in western Antarctica?

• Ricardo A. Mercado-Juárez,

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

  Affiliations Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad de Posgrado, Coyoacán, México, Laboratorio de Ecología Bacteriana, Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, UNAM, Ucú, México

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• Patricia M. Valdespino-Castillo,

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

  Affiliations Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias de la Tierra, UNAM, Coyoacán, México

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• Martín Merino Ibarra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Unidad Académica de Biodiversidad Acuática, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, Coyoacán, México

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• Silvia Batista,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay

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• Walter Mac Cormack,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Instituto Antártico Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instituto NANOBIOTEC UBA-CONICET, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Lucas Ruberto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto Antártico Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instituto NANOBIOTEC UBA-CONICET, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Edward J. Carpenter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Estuary and Ocean Science Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California, United States of America

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• Douglas G. Capone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marine and Environmental Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Luisa I. Falcón

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

  * E-mail: falcon@ecologia.unam.mx

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Bacteriana, Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, UNAM, Ucú, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-6483

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