About the Authors

Rachel A. F. Wozniak

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Derrick E. Fouts

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Matteo Spagnoletti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Universitá di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Mauro M. Colombo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Universitá di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Daniela Ceccarelli

Affiliation Centre d'Étude et de Valorisation de la Diversité Microbienne, Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Geneviève Garriss

Affiliation Centre d'Étude et de Valorisation de la Diversité Microbienne, Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Christine Déry

Affiliation Centre d'Étude et de Valorisation de la Diversité Microbienne, Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Vincent Burrus

Vincent.Burrus@USherbrooke.ca (VB); mwaldor@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW)

Affiliation Centre d'Étude et de Valorisation de la Diversité Microbienne, Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Matthew K. Waldor

Vincent.Burrus@USherbrooke.ca (VB); mwaldor@rics.bwh.harvard.edu (MKW)

Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAFW VB MKW. Performed the experiments: RAFW DEF MS DC GG CD VB. Analyzed the data: RAFW MS DC VB MKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMC. Wrote the paper: RAFW VB MKW.