Microbial diversity of coastal microbial mats formations in karstic habitats from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

• Santiago Cadena,

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

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

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• Claudia Teutli-Hernández,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Yucatan, Mexico

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• Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira,

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

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

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• M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo,

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

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

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• Luisa I. Falcón,

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

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ucú, Mexico

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• Brad M. Bebout,

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

  Affiliation Exobiology Branch, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

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• José Q. García-Maldonado

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jose.garcia@cinvestav.mx

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7023-3916

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