About the Authors

Migun Shakya

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliations Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Genome Science and Technology Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Neil Gottel

Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Hector Castro

Affiliations Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zamin K. Yang

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Lee Gunter

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Jessy Labbé

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Wellington Muchero

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Gregory Bonito

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Rytas Vilgalys

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gerald Tuskan

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Mircea Podar

Affiliations Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Genome Science and Technology Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Christopher W. Schadt

schadtcw@ornl.gov

Affiliations Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Genome Science and Technology Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, 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: HC GB GT RV CWS. Performed the experiments: MS NG HC ZKY LG JL WM GB RV GT CWS. Analyzed the data: MS NG JL WM CWS. Wrote the paper: MS JL WM MP CWS.