About the Authors

Hua Shen

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gregory Harris

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Wangxue Chen

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anders Sjostedt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Bacteriology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Patrik Ryden

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Department of Statistics, Computational Life Science Cluster, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Wayne Conlan

wayne.conlan@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC AS WWC. Performed the experiments: HS GH WWC. Analyzed the data: HS GH WC AS PR WWC. Wrote the paper: WC AS WWC.