About the Authors

Derrick E. Fouts

Contributed equally to this work with: Derrick E. Fouts, Sebastian Szpakowski

dfouts@jcvi.org

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

Sebastian Szpakowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Derrick E. Fouts, Sebastian Szpakowski

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

Janaki Purushe

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Substance Abuse Research, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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

Manolito Torralba

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

Richard C. Waterman

Affiliation Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Miles City, Montana, United States of America

Michael D. MacNeil

Current address: Delta G, Miles City, Montana, United States of America

Affiliation Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Miles City, Montana, United States of America

Leeson J. Alexander

Affiliation Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Miles City, Montana, United States of America

Karen E. Nelson

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DEF SS RCW LJA. Performed the experiments: JP MT RCW LJA. Analyzed the data: DEF SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DEF SS RCW LJA MDM KEN. Wrote the paper: DEF SS JP MT RCW LJA MDM KEN.