About the Authors

Emiley A. Eloe

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Douglas W. Fadrosh

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark Novotny

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Lisa Zeigler Allen

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Maria Kim

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

Mary-Jane Lombardo

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joyclyn Yee-Greenbaum

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shibu Yooseph

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eric E. Allen

Affiliations Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Roger Lasken

Affiliation Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shannon J. Williamson

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

Douglas H. Bartlett

dbartlett@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAE RL SJW DHB. Analyzed the data: EAE DWF MN LZA MK M-JL JY-G SY EEA RL SW DHB. Wrote the paper: EAE DHB. Performed the wet-lab experiments: EAE DWF MN M-JL JY-G. Performed the bioinformatic analyses: EAE LZA MK SY.