About the Authors

Morgan M. Steffen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zhou Li

Affiliation Graduate School of Genome Science & Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

T. Chad Effler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Loren J. Hauser

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Graduate School of Genome Science & Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Gregory L. Boyer

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Steven W. Wilhelm

wilhelm@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMS ZL SWW. Performed the experiments: MMS ZL. Analyzed the data: MMS ZL TCE LJH GLB SWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJH GLB SWW. Wrote the paper: MMS ZL LJH GLB SWW.