About the Authors

Jennifer M. Brulc

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

Carl J. Yeoman

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Melissa K. Wilson

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

Margret E. Berg Miller

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

Patricio Jeraldo

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Sadanari Jindou

Affiliation Department of Culture Education, Faculty of Science, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Nigel Goldenfeld

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Harry J. Flint

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

Raphael Lamed

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

Ilya Borovok

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

Maša Vodovnik

Affiliations Microbial Ecology Group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Chair for Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Karen E. Nelson

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

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, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAW EAB HJF RL KEN NG. Performed the experiments: JMB. Analyzed the data: CJY JMB MEBM PJ SJ IB MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJY. Wrote the paper: CJY JMB EAB BAW MEBM HJF. Collected samples: JMB MKW MEBM.