The MicroBioDiverSar Project: Exploring the Microbial Biodiversity in Ex Situ Collections of Sardinia
, Marilena Budroni 2, Chiara Multineddu 2, Sofia Cosentino 3, Maura Deplano 3, Paolo Romano 4 and Roberta Comunian 1,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors! I with great pleasure read your article entitled “the microbiodiversar project: exploring the microbial biodiversity in ex situ collections of Sardinia”. The article fits for Sustainability journal, is interesting and touched the global problem – protection of biodiversity and identification new microorganism.
It is a very valuable and interestingly prepared paper. The manuscript is sure to attract the attention of the journal's readers. The results are clearly presented, with good conclusions. All tables and graphs are clear, understandable and necessary. The overall quality of the presentation is good. The references are sufficient and necessary. I don't feel qualified to review the English used by the authors but I understood well all the text. I haven't found any mistakes.
Wish good luck in your current and future studies.
Author Response
The authors wish to thank the reviewer for the positive comments on their manuscript
Reviewer 2 Report
Great work that presents an alternative for research and educational institutions to manage their culture collections.
Author Response
The authors wish to thank the reviewer for the positive comments on their manuscript
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear authors.
Hann presented a magnificent article, interesting, original, of high value for the knowledge of biodiversity. In order to improve the quality of the work, I suggest that you fix Figure 1, since MBDS_DB Schema, is not very readable; The same thing happens to Figure 3, I think they should enlarge the font size.
I suggest that all the species mentioned in the text must be authored, at least the first time they are cited.
Table 3 is not very readable.
Author Response
The authors wish to thank the reviewer for his/her comments which contributed to improve the quality of their manuscript.
Figure 1 and Figure 2 were modified improving the graphic quality. High resolution Figures were also uploaded as separate file.
The name of all the species cited were authored in the Tables 3, 4, and 5
Table 3 was revised.
