About the Authors

Kelly P. Nevin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly P. Nevin, Byoung-Chan Kim

knevin@microbio.umass.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Byoung-Chan Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Kelly P. Nevin, Byoung-Chan Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard H. Glaven

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica P. Johnson

Current address: Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Trevor L. Woodard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara A. Methé

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

Raymond J. DiDonato Jr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sean F. Covalla

Current address: Mascoma Corporation, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ashley E. Franks

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna Liu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Derek R. Lovley

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KPN DL. Performed the experiments: KPN BCK RHG JPJ TLW BAM RJDJ SFC AEF. Analyzed the data: JPJ BAM RJDJ AEF AL. Wrote the paper: KPN DL.