About the Authors

Alisha G. Campbell

Affiliations Genome Science and Technology Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

James H. Campbell

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Patrick Schwientek

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Tanja Woyke

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alexander Sczyrba

Current address: Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Steve Allman

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Clifford J. Beall

Affiliation College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ann Griffen

Affiliation College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Eugene Leys

Affiliation College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mircea Podar

podarm@ornl.gov

Affiliations Genome Science and Technology Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGC PS TW AS AG EL MP. Performed the experiments: AGC SA CB. Analyzed the data: AGC JHC PS AS CB. Wrote the paper: AGC PS MP.