About the Authors

Jason A. Steen

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Jennifer A. Steen

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Paul Harrison

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Ian Wilkie

Affiliation Veterinary Pathology and Anatomy, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Marina Harper

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Ben Adler

Affiliations Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

John D. Boyce

john.boyce@med.monash.edu.au

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Jason Steen, Marina Harper, Ben Adler, John Boyce. Performed the experiments: Jason Steen, Jennifer Steen. Analyzed the data: Jason Steen, Jennifer Steen, Paul Harrison, Torsten Seemann, Ian Wilkie, Marina Harper, Ben Adler, John Boyce. Wrote the paper: Jason Steen, Jennifer Steen, Marina Harper, Ben Adler, John Boyce.