We gratefully acknowledge the laboratory assistance provided by Kali Middleby, Andrew Gall, Lydia Köbele and Karin Schmidt. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD; 91525994) for a fellowship supporting the experimental work (KMJ), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for funding of the Veni project VI.Veni.202.086 (KMJ) and the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Tübingen (K.M.J.). This work is associated to the DFG Priority Program 2322 SoilSystems, project EcoEnergeticS (DFG DI 2136/17-1; MAD). We thank the staff of the core projects of the SPP and the scientific committee for establishing the SPP project.

Dataset and code for the publication: Intracellular carbon storage by microorganisms is an overlooked pathway of biomass growth Mason-Jones, K., Breidenbach, A., Dyckmans, J., Banfield, C.C., Dippold, M.A. Nature Communications 2023 Article DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37713-4