About the Authors

Jason G. Bragg

Current address: CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

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

Stephanie Dutkiewicz

Affiliation Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Oliver Jahn

Affiliation Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael J. Follows

mick@mit.edu (MJF); chisholm@mit.edu (SWC)

Affiliation Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sallie W. Chisholm

mick@mit.edu (MJF); chisholm@mit.edu (SWC)

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: JGB SD MJF SWC. Performed the experiments: JGB SD. Analyzed the data: JGB SD OJ MJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OJ. Wrote the paper: JGB SD MJF SWC.