About the Authors
- Matthew N. Van Ert
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Current address: Midwest Research Institute, Palm Bay, Florida, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- W. Ryan Easterday
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Lynn Y. Huynh
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Current address: Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Richard T. Okinaka
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Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Biosciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
- Martin E. Hugh-Jones
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
- Jacques Ravel
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Shaylan R. Zanecki
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Talima Pearson
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Tatum S. Simonson
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Jana M. U'Ren
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Sergey M. Kachur
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Rebecca R. Leadem-Dougherty
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Shane D. Rhoton
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Guenevier Zinser
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Jason Farlow
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Current address: Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Pamala R. Coker
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Current address: Pathogen Research & Consulting, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
- Kimothy L. Smith
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Current address: Office of Research and Development, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D. C., United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Bingxiang Wang
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Affiliation Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products, Lanzhou, China
- Leo J. Kenefic
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
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Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- David M. Wagner
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
- Paul Keim
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Paul.Keim@nau.edu
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Biosciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PK TP Mv DW WE LH TS JU SK KS LK. Performed the experiments: Mv WE LH SZ TS JU SK SR GZ LK RL. Analyzed the data: JR PK TP Mv DW WE LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF JR TP Mv DW WE LH JF PC KS BW MH. Wrote the paper: PK Mv DW RO.