About the Authors

Xingpeng Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingpeng Jiang, Morgan G. I. Langille

Current address: Department of Biology and M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Morgan G. I. Langille

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingpeng Jiang, Morgan G. I. Langille

Current address: Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Russell Y. Neches

Affiliation Genome Center and Microbiology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Marie Elliot

Affiliation Department of Biology and M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Simon A. Levin

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Jonathan A. Eisen

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

Joshua S. Weitz

jsweitz@gatech.edu (JW); dushoff@mcmaster.ca (JD)

Affiliation School of Biology and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jonathan Dushoff

jsweitz@gatech.edu (JW); dushoff@mcmaster.ca (JD)

Affiliation Department of Biology and M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ ML RN ME SL JE JW JD. Performed the experiments: XJ ML RN. Analyzed the data: XJ ML RN JE JW JD ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJ ML RN JE JW JD. Wrote the paper: XJ ML RN ME SL JE JW JD.