About the Authors

Margret E. Berg Miller

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Dionysios A. Antonopoulos

Current address: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Marco T. Rincon

Affiliation Microbial Ecology Group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Mark Band

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Albert Bari

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Tatsiana Akraiko

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Alvaro Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jyothi Thimmapuram

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Marseille, France

Pedro M. Coutinho

Affiliation Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Marseille, France

Ilya Borovok

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Sadanari Jindou

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Raphael Lamed

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Harry J. Flint

Affiliation Microbial Ecology Group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Edward A. Bayer

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Bryan A. White

bwhite44@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEBM DA BAW. Performed the experiments: MEBM DA. Analyzed the data: MEBM DA MTR JT BH PMC IB SJ RL HJF EAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB AB TA AGH JT. Wrote the paper: MEBM DA BAW.