About the Authors

Marcus J. Claesson

mclaesson@bioinfo.ucc.ie

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Orla O'Sullivan

Affiliation Teagasc, Moorepark Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Qiong Wang

Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Janne Nikkilä

Affiliation Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Julian R. Marchesi

Current address: Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Hauke Smidt

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Willem M. de Vos

Affiliations Department of Basic Veterinary Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Epidemiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

R. Paul Ross

Affiliations Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Teagasc, Moorepark Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Paul W. O'Toole

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJC JRM PWO. Performed the experiments: MJC OO QW JN. Analyzed the data: MJC OO QW JN HS WMdV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW JRM HS WMdV RPR. Wrote the paper: MJC OO PWO.