Authors,

Thank you for your manuscript submission and for your detailed responses to the referee comments. I should first apologize my delay in processing a decision. As you know, the COVID-19 virus pandemic has caused delays all over the world, and I've had to adjust work priorities in the last month.

I am generally satisfied with most of the revisions and it is almost ready to submit the final version of the manuscript for production. The one thing I would like you to change is related to comment (12) from referee #2 (related to the capitalization of bacteria and fungi). I agree that these terms should be written in lower case. Your response was that the phylum name should be written with a capital letter, by convention. I agree with this, but that the term "bacteria" (domain) and "fungi" (kingdom" exist at higher taxonomic levels than phyla, and are generally written without capital (e.g. see https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/page/scientific-nomenclature among others). Please update the capitalization of these two terms in the abstract and throughout the text before submitting the final manuscript version.

Otherwise, I am happy for the manuscript to proceed. Thank you for your submission and for your patience. Congratulations.

Best regards,

Alex Huffman