About the Authors

Navkiran Gill

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rosana B. R. Ferreira

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

L. Caetano M. Antunes

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Benjamin P. Willing

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Inna Sekirov

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fatimah Al-Zahrani

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Martin Hartmann

Affiliations Molecular Ecology, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zurich, Switzerland, Soil Sciences, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

B. Brett Finlay

bfinlay@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliations Michael Smith Laboratories, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG RBRF LCMA IS BBF. Performed the experiments: NG RBRF LCMA BPW FA. Analyzed the data: NG BPW MH. Wrote the paper: NG LCMA.