1. Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences Queen's University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens Belfast BT9 7BL UK
2. Bay Area Environmental Research Institute NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA 94035 USA
3. NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA 94035 USA
4. Department of Biology and Biotechnology Sapienza University of Rome Rome 00185 Italy
5. Department of Geology and Geography West Virginia University Morgantown WV 26506‐6300 USA
6. Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology University of Latvia, Jelgavas Str., 1‐537 Riga LV‐1004 Latvia
7. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences University of Bologna Bologna 40126 Italy
8. Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences University of Tuscia Viterbo 01100 Italy
9. Italian Antarctic National Museum (MNA), Mycological Section Genoa 16128 Italy
10. Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029 China
11. Department of Earth and Planetary Science University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131 USA
12. CNRS, Ctr Biophys Mol UPR 4301, Rue Charles Sadron, CS 80054 Orleans F‐45071 France
13. Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology IRBIM‐CNR Messina 98122 Italy
14. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CBMSO, CSICUAM), Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
15. Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, INTA‐CSIC) Torrejón de Ardoz 28055 Spain
16. School of Biological Sciences, Department of Microbiology Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL 62901 USA