About the Authors

Mark W. J. van Passel

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark W. J. van Passel, Ravi Kant

mark.vanpassel@wur.nl

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ravi Kant

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark W. J. van Passel, Ravi Kant

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Erwin G. Zoetendal

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Caroline M. Plugge

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Muriel Derrien

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Stephanie A. Malfatti

Affiliations DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Patrick S. G. Chain

Affiliations DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Tanja Woyke

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

Airi Palva

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Willem M. de Vos

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Hauke Smidt

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVP WDV HS RK. Performed the experiments: HS MD TW PC SM. Analyzed the data: MVP RK HS WDV CP AP EZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS SM PC TW. Wrote the paper: MVP RK HS WDV.