About the Authors

Clifford E. Kraft

cek7@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Eric R. L. Gordon

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Esther R. Angert

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CEK ERLG ERA. Performed the experiments: ERLG. Analyzed the data: CEK ERLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ERA. Wrote the paper: CEK ERLG ERA.