Halorhabdus tiamatea : proteogenomics and glycosidase activity measurements identify the first cultivated euryarchaeon from a deep-sea anoxic brine lake as potential polysaccharide degrader

We thank the crew of the R/V Urania for sampling of the Medee DHAL, Jorg Wulf for catalysed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses, Rafael Bargiela for helping with figures and Rudolf Amann for critical reading of the manuscript. This study was supported by the EU FP7 project MAMBA('Marine Metagenomics for New Biotechnological Applications', FP7-KBBE-2008-226977; http://mamba.bangor.ac.uk/), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant BIO2011-25012) and the Max Planck Society. H. T., O.V.G. and P.N.G. acknowledge the support of EU FP7 for the project MicroB3 (OCEAN-2011-287589).