About the Authors

Elliot W. Jackson

ewj34@cornell.edu

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

Kalia S. I. Bistolas

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

Jason B. Button

Current address: Department of Oceanography, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware, United States of America

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

Ian Hewson

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

Conceptualization: EWJ KSIB IH. Data curation: EWJ KSIB. Formal analysis: EWJ KSIB IH. Funding acquisition: IH. Investigation: EWJ JBB. Methodology: EWJ JBB IH. Project administration: EWJ. Resources: IH. Software: EWJ KSIB. Supervision: IH. Validation: EWJ KSIB IH. Visualization: EWJ. Writing – original draft: EWJ. Writing – review & editing: EWJ KSIB JBB IH.