About the Authors

Annette A. Angus

Contributed equally to this work with: Annette A. Angus, Christina M. Agapakis

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Christina M. Agapakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Annette A. Angus, Christina M. Agapakis

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stephanie Fong

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shailaja Yerrapragada

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paulina Estrada-de los Santos

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Prolongación de Carpio y Plan de Ayala, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México

Paul Yang

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nannie Song

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stephanie Kano

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jésus Caballero-Mellado

† Deceased.

Affiliation Genomic Sciences Center, National Autonomous University of México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Sergio M. de Faria

Affiliation Embrapa Agrobiologia, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Felix D. Dakora

Affiliation Chemistry Department, Tshwane University of Technology, Arcadia Campus, Pretoria, South Africa

George Weinstock

Affiliation Dept. of Genetics, Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ann M. Hirsch

ahirsch@ucla.edu

Affiliations Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAA CMA AMH. Performed the experiments: AAA CMA SF. Analyzed the data: CMA AAA AMH SY PES PY NS SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMA AAA AMH JCM SMdF FDD GW. Wrote the paper: AAA CMA AMH FDD PES. For his pioneering research on the Symbiotic Burkholderia species: JCM.