1. Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
3. Marine Science Discipline, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
4. Department of Ecology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany
5. Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
6. Tropical Marine Microbiology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen, Germany
7. Micropaleontology-Paleoceanography, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
8. Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
9. Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
10. University of Bremen, Faculty 02 Biology/Chemistry, Bremen, Germany
11. IUCN SSC-Mangrove Specialist Group
12. Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
13. Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
14. Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
15. Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
16. RG Microbial Ecology: Metabolism, Genomics & Evolution, Microbiomas Foundation, Chia, Colombia
17. Department of Pure & Applied Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya
18. Microbiomes and Bioenergy Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
19. Marine Sciences Institute, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
20. Edinburgh Napier University School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
21. Red Sea Research Center, BESE, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
22. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil