About the Authors

Emmanuelle Lerat

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Vincent Daubin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Howard Ochman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hochman@email.arizona.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Nancy A Moran

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EL, VD, and NAM conceived and designed the experiments. EL performed the experiments. EL, VD, HO, and NAM analyzed the data. VD contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. EL, VD, HO, and NAM wrote the paper.