About the Authors

Qiuyuan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiuyuan Huang, Brandon R. Briggs

Affiliations Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Brandon R. Briggs

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiuyuan Huang, Brandon R. Briggs

Affiliation Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Hailiang Dong

dongh@miamioh.edu

Affiliations Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Hongchen Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Geng Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Christian Edwardson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Iwijn De Vlaminck

Affiliation Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stephen Quake

Affiliation Departments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BRB HD HJ. Performed the experiments: QH BRB CE IV GW. Analyzed the data: QH BRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE IV SQ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: QH BRB HD HJ GW CE IV SQ.