About the Authors

Erik R. Zinser

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Debbie Lindell

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Zackary I. Johnson

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Matthias E. Futschik

Affiliations Institute of Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Center for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Claudia Steglich

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Maureen L. Coleman

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthew A. Wright

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Trent Rector

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Steen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathan McNulty

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luke R. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sallie W. Chisholm

chisholm@mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERZ DL ZJ SWC. Performed the experiments: ERZ DL ZJ CS MC NM. Analyzed the data: ERZ DL ZJ MEF CS MC LRT SWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEF MC MAW TR RS SWC. Wrote the paper: ERZ DL ZJ MEF CS MC LRT SWC.