About the Authors

Rohit Ghai

Contributed equally to this work with: Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodŕíguez-Valera

Affiliation Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiologia, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Francisco Rodŕíguez-Valera

Contributed equally to this work with: Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodŕíguez-Valera

frvalera@umh.es (FRV); dfhs@ufscar.br (FHS)

Affiliation Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiologia, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Katherine D. McMahon

Affiliation Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiologia, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Danyelle Toyama

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brasil

Raquel Rinke

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brasil

Tereza Cristina Souza de Oliveira

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Setor Sul do Campus Universitário, Manaus, AM, Brasil

José Wagner Garcia

Affiliation Noosfera Projetos Especiais Ltda, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

Fernando Pellon de Miranda

Affiliation Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, Centro de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento Leopoldo Américo Miguez de Melo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Flavio Henrique-Silva

frvalera@umh.es (FRV); dfhs@ufscar.br (FHS)

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brasil

Competing Interests

José Wagner Garcia is employed by Noosfera Projetos Especiais Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil. Fernando Pellon de Miranda is employed by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A - Petrobras, Brasil. Francisco Rodriguez-Valera is an academic editor at PLoS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRV FHS. Performed the experiments: DT RR TCSdO JWG FPdM FHS. Analyzed the data: RG FRV KDM. Wrote the paper: RG FRV KDM.