About the Authors

Martin Wu

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Qinghu Ren

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

A. Scott Durkin

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Sean C Daugherty

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lauren M Brinkac

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Robert J Dodson

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Ramana Madupu

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Steven A Sullivan

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

James F Kolonay

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

William C Nelson

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Luke J Tallon

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kristine M Jones

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Luke E Ulrich

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Juan M Gonzalez

Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Igor B Zhulin

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Frank T Robb

Affiliation Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan A Eisen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jeisen@tigr.org

Affiliations The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MW, FTR, and JAE conceived and designed the experiments. JMG and FTR performed the physiology experiments. MW, QR, LEU, IBZ, FTR, and JAE analyzed the data. MW, IBZ, FTR, and JAE wrote the paper. LJT and KMJ closed the genome. ASD, SCD, LMB, RJD, RM, SAS, JFK, and WCN annotated the genome.