Contributors
K. Jordaan:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9147-9827
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draft
A. M. Comeau: Role: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
D. P. Khasa: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
C. C. Bezuidenhout: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
A. Mark Ibekwe: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
21
May
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0216758
Affiliations
[1
]
Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Microbiology, North-West University,
South Africa, Potchefstroom, South Africa
[2
]
Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Québec,
Canada
USDA-ARS Salinity Laboratory, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
[¤a]
Current address: Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), University of Pretoria,
Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
[¤b]
Current address: CGEB-Integrated Microbiome Resource, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Canada
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-03307
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216758
PMC ID: 6528982
PubMed ID: 31112559
SO-VID: 9ff31a93-c769-4afc-907e-9817542d66c3
Copyright © © 2019 Jordaan et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 3
February
2019
Date
accepted
: 26
April
2019
Page count
Figures: 8,
Tables: 2,
Pages: 24
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100009288, Canadian Bureau for International Education;
Award Recipient
:
Karen Jordaan
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001321, National Research Foundation;
Award Recipient
:
Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004424, Water Research Commission;
Award ID: K5/1996
Award Recipient
:
Cornelius C. Bezuidenhout
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000038, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;
Award Recipient
:
D. P. Khasa
Funded by: Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES)
Award Recipient
:
D. P. Khasa
The study was supported by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
(
https://cbie.ca) to KJ & DPK, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Discovery Grant (
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp) to DPK, the Water Research Commission (WRC) (
www.wrc.org.za) through grant K5/1996 to CCB, the National Research Foundation (NRF) (
https://www.nrf.ac.za) to CCB, and by Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) to DPK. The funders had no role in
study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of
the manuscript.
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Community Structure
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Ecology
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