About the Authors

Stéphane Vuilleumier

Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphane Vuilleumier, Ludmila Chistoserdova

vuilleumier@unistra.fr (SV); milachis@u.washington.edu (LC)

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Ludmila Chistoserdova

Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphane Vuilleumier, Ludmila Chistoserdova

vuilleumier@unistra.fr (SV); milachis@u.washington.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ming-Chun Lee

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Françoise Bringel

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Aurélie Lajus

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Yang Zhou

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Benjamin Gourion

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Valérie Barbe

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, CEA, Génoscope, Evry, France

Jean Chang

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stéphane Cruveiller

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Carole Dossat

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, CEA, Génoscope, Evry, France

Will Gillett

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christelle Gruffaz

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Eric Haugen

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Edith Hourcade

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Ruth Levy

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sophie Mangenot

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, CEA, Génoscope, Evry, France

Emilie Muller

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Thierry Nadalig

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Marco Pagni

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT group, Lausanne, Switzerland

Christian Penny

Affiliation Département Micro-organismes, Génomes, Environnement, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France

Rémi Peyraud

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

David G. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Roche

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Zoé Rouy

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Channakhone Saenampechek

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Grégory Salvignol

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

David Vallenet

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Zaining Wu

Affiliation Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher J. Marx

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Julia A. Vorholt

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Maynard V. Olson

Affiliations Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rajinder Kaul

Affiliations Genome Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jean Weissenbach

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Claudine Médigue

Affiliation Institut de Génomique, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, CEA and UMR8030 CNRS, Génoscope, Evry, France

Mary E. Lidstrom

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SV LC MCL FB AL YZ BG SC RP DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC WG MP DGR DR GS DV. Wrote the paper: SV LC MCL FB BG MP RP CJM JAV CM. Designed the initial project: SV LC MVO JW MEL. Contributed to the manual expert annotation of the two strains: SV LC MCL FB BG CG EHourcade EM TN CP RP. Comparative genomic analyses: SV LC MCL FB RP DR. Designed Figure 1: SV LC RP JAV. Designed Figure 2: ZR. Designed Figure 3: GS. Designed Figure 4: SV LC. Designed Figure 5: MCL. Designed Figure 6: SV. Secured funds to support the study: SV JW CM MEL. Shotgun sequencing and assembly: YZ VB JC CD RL SM CS ZW RK. Managed informatics resources of the project: CD EHaugen MP GS DV.