Reply to Schouten et al.: Marine Group II planktonic Euryarchaeota are significant contributors to tetraether lipids in the ocean

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
• ² Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.
• ³ Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and.
• ⁴ Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
• ⁵ Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and delong@mit.edu.