1Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
2Department of Pediatrics, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
3Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, 60131, Italy
4School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
5Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL 33004, USA
6Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
7State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
8Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Thalassocosmos, 71500 Heraklion, Greece
9Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, University Rd., Galway, Ireland
10School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
11Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, 46-007 Lilipuna Road, Kaneohe, HI 96744-1346
12Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
13Ecological Networks and Global Change Group, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS and Paul Sabatier University, Moulis, France
14Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
15INRA, UMR1309 CMAEE; Cirad, UMR15 CMAEE, 34398 Montpellier, France
16Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
17Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Townsville, 4810, Queensland, Australia
18Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
19Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington NC 28409, USA
20Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky and University Oldenburg, Schleusenstr. 1, 26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
21Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z3
22Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
23Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook NY 11794, USA
24Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB), Department of Bioengineering, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
25Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
26KAUST Environmental Epigenetic Program (KEEP), Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
27RD3 Marine Microbiology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
28Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
✉Correspondence address. Torsten Thomas, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia; E-mail: t.thomas@unsw.edu.au