Nancy Merino¹, Mikihiko Kawai², Eric S Boyd³, Daniel R Colman⁴, Shawn McGlynn⁵, Kenneth H Nealson⁶, Ken Kurokawa⁷ and Yuichi Hongoh², (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Biosciences and Biotechnology, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Montana State University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan