About the Authors

Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro, Roland R. Arnold

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

apoenaribeiro@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Cariology, School of Dentistry, Fluminense Federal University, Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Maria Andrea Azcarate-Peril

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America, Microbiome Core Facility, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Maria Belen Cadenas

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Microbiome Core Facility, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Natasha Butz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Microbiome Core Facility, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Bruce J. Paster

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection & Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, United States of America

Tsute Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, United States of America

Eric Bair

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Endodontics and Biostatistics, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Roland R. Arnold

Contributed equally to this work with: Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro, Roland R. Arnold

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.