About the Authors

Dongying Wu

Affiliation University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, United States of America

Jason Raymond

Current address: University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Affiliation Microbial Systems Division, Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Martin Wu

Affiliation University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, United States of America

Sourav Chatterji

Affiliation University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, United States of America

Qinghu Ren

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Joel E. Graham

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Donald A. Bryant

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frank Robb

Affiliation University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Albert Colman

Current address: Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luke J. Tallon

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan H. Badger

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ramana Madupu

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Naomi L. Ward

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan A. Eisen

jaeisen@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations University of California Davis Genome Center, Davis, California, United States of America, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW DB FTR NW JAE. Performed the experiments: JEG AC LJT. Analyzed the data: DW JR MW SC QR JEG DB FTR AC JHB RM NW JAE. Wrote the paper: DW DB FTR NW JAE.