About the Authors

Seungdae Oh

Contributed equally to this work with: Seungdae Oh, Sarah Buddenborg

Affiliation School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sarah Buddenborg

Contributed equally to this work with: Seungdae Oh, Sarah Buddenborg

Current address: Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Deborah R. Yoder-Himes

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

James M. Tiedje

Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

kostas@ce.gatech.edu

Affiliations School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KTK JT. Performed the experiments: SB DRY. Analyzed the data: SO. Wrote the paper: SO KTK DRY.