About the Authors

Tanja Woyke

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Damon Tighe

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Konstantinos Mavromatis

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alicia Clum

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alex Copeland

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Wendy Schackwitz

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Alla Lapidus

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Dongying Wu

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

John P. McCutcheon

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bradon R. McDonald

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Nancy A. Moran

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

James Bristow

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jan-Fang Cheng

JFCheng@lbl.gov

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW DT JFC. Performed the experiments: TW DT AC JPM BM. Analyzed the data: TW KM AC AC WSS AL DW JPM. Wrote the paper: TW KM WSS JPM NAM. Provided general support: JB.