Thiovulaceae differ metabolically and genomically from marine species 1

Cave Thiovulaceae differ metabolically and genomically from marine species 1 Mina Bizic, Traian Brad, Danny Ionescu, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Joost Aerts, Radu 2 Popa, Luca Zoccarato, Jessica Ody, Jean-François Flot , Scott Tighe, Daniel Vellone, and 3 Serban M. Sarbu 12 4 5 1 Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB, Dep 3, Experimental Limnology, 6 Zur Alte Fischerhütte 2, OT Neuglobsow, 16775 Stechlin, Germany 7 2 Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany 8 3 “Emil Racoviţă” Institute of Speleology, Clinicilor 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca Romania, 9 4 Institutul Român de Știință și Tehnologie, Virgil Fulicea nr. 3, 400022 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 10 5 Center for Electron Microscopy, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Clinicilor 5, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, 11 Romania 12 6 Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Earth and Life sciences, De Boelelaan 1085, 13 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 14 7 River Road Research, 62 Leslie St. Buffalo, NY 1421, USA 15 8 Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), C.P. 160/12, Avenue F.D. 16 Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium 17 9 Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels – (IB)2, Brussels, Belgium 18 10 Vermont Integrative Genomics Lab, University of Vermont Cancer Center, Health Science Research 19 Facility, Burlington, Vermont, 05405, USA 20 11 “Emil Racoviţă” Institute of Speleology, Frumoasă 31-B, 010986 Bucureşti, Romania 21 12 Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Chico 95929, USA 22 23 * Authors have contributed equally to the work 24 25