About the Authors

Alban Mathieu

Affiliations Environmental Microbial Genomics group, Laboratoire Ampere, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Ecully, France, LibraGen, Toulouse, France

Tom O. Delmont

Affiliation Environmental Microbial Genomics group, Laboratoire Ampere, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Ecully, France

Timothy M. Vogel

Affiliation Environmental Microbial Genomics group, Laboratoire Ampere, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Ecully, France

Patrick Robe

Affiliation LibraGen, Toulouse, France

Renaud Nalin

Current address: Dremil Lafage, France

Affiliation LibraGen, Toulouse, France

Pascal Simonet

pascal.simonet@ec-lyon.fr

Affiliation Environmental Microbial Genomics group, Laboratoire Ampere, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Ecully, France

Competing Interests

AM, PR and RN are affiliated to the commercial company Libragen. The phD thesis of the first author is financed by the company Libragen but not the research developed in the article. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: AM PS RN. Performed the experiments: AM TOD. Analyzed the data: AM TOD PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM TOD PR. Wrote the paper: AM TMV PS.