About the Authors

Juan Carlos Higareda-Almaraz

Affiliation Functional Genomics of Prokaryotes Research Program, Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Ilse A. Valtierra-Gutiérrez

Affiliations Functional Genomics of Prokaryotes Research Program, Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, Undergraduate Program on Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Magdalena Hernandez-Ortiz

Affiliation Functional Genomics of Prokaryotes Research Program, Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Sandra Contreras

Affiliation Functional Genomics of Prokaryotes Research Program, Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Erika Hernandez

Affiliation Undergraduate Program on Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Sergio Encarnacion

encarnac@ccg.unam.mx

Affiliation Functional Genomics of Prokaryotes Research Program, Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SE JCHA. Performed the experiments: JCHA IAVG EH MHO SC. Analyzed the data: JCHA IAVG. Wrote the paper: JCHA IAVG SE.