About the Authors

Ajith Harish

Current address: Section of Microbial Ecology, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@illinois.edu

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCA. Performed the experiments: AH. Analyzed the data: GCA AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCA AH. Wrote the paper: GCA AH.