1. Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev Midreshet Ben‐Gurion Israel
2. Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev Midreshet Ben‐Gurion Israel
3. Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Environmental Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rehovot Israel
4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA
5. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA
6. Department of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas Austin Austin Texas USA