About the Authors
- John M. Chaston
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Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Chaston, Garret Suen
Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Garret Suen
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Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Chaston, Garret Suen
Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Sarah L. Tucker
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Aaron W. Andersen
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Archna Bhasin
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, United States of America
- Edna Bode
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Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Helge B. Bode
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Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Alexander O. Brachmann
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Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Charles E. Cowles
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Kimberly N. Cowles
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Creg Darby
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Affiliation Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Limaris de Léon
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Kevin Drace
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, United States of America
- Zijin Du
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Alain Givaudan
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Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Erin E. Herbert Tran
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Kelsea A. Jewell
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Jennifer J. Knack
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Karina C. Krasomil-Osterfeld
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Ryan Kukor
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Anne Lanois
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Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Phil Latreille
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Nancy K. Leimgruber
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Carolyn M. Lipke
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Renyi Liu
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Xiaojun Lu
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Eric C. Martens
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Pradeep R. Marri
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Claudine Médigue
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Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope and CNRS-UMR 8030, Laboratoire d'Analyse Bioinformatique en Génomique et Métabolisme, Evry, France
- Megan L. Menard
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Nancy M. Miller
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Nydia Morales-Soto
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Stacie Norton
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jean-Claude Ogier
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Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Samantha S. Orchard
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Dongjin Park
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Youngjin Park
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Barbara A. Qurollo
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Darby Renneckar Sugar
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Gregory R. Richards
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Zoé Rouy
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Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope and CNRS-UMR 8030, Laboratoire d'Analyse Bioinformatique en Génomique et Métabolisme, Evry, France
- Brad Slominski
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Kathryn Slominski
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Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Holly Snyder
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Brian C. Tjaden
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Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ransome van der Hoeven
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Roy D. Welch
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America
- Cathy Wheeler
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America
- Bosong Xiang
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Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Brad Barbazuk
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Sophie Gaudriault
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Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Brad Goodner
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America
- Steven C. Slater
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Affiliation DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Steven Forst
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Barry S. Goldman
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* E-mail: barry.s.goldman@monsanto.com (B.Goldman); hgblair@bact.wisc.edu (HG-B)
Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Heidi Goodrich-Blair
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* E-mail: barry.s.goldman@monsanto.com (B.Goldman); hgblair@bact.wisc.edu (HG-B)
Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Competing Interests
Monsanto Company provided support for this study through the donation of resources for genome sequencing and team-member time. ST, ZD, KK-O, PL, NM, SN, BX and B.Goldman are employed by Monsanto Company. NL and BQ were employed by Monsanto at the time of this study. There are no products in development or marketed products to declare associated with this study. However, a patent has been filed for the X. bovienii strain in this manuscript (patent #7629444; filed 6/10/2005 and issued 12/8/2009; Inventors: Barry S. Goldman, Karina Krasomil-Osterfeld; Wei Wu; Assignee Monsanto Technology LLC) that Monsanto Company is not prosecuting. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BB SG B.Goodner SS SF B.Goldman HG-B. Performed the experiments: EB HB A.Brachmann KC EM NM-S DP YP GR BX B.Goodner NKL NMM. Analyzed the data: JC GS AA A.Bhasin EB HB A.Brachmann CC KC CD LdL KD ZD AG EHT KJ JK KK-O RK AL PL CL RL XL EM PM CM MM NMM NM-S SN J-CO SO DP YP BQ DS GR ZR BS KS HS BT RvdH RW CW BB SG B.Goodner SS SF B.Goldman HG-B. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF B.Goldman HG-B. Wrote the paper: JC GS ST SS B.Goldman HG-B.