About the Authors

Won Hee Jung

These authors made equal contributions and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University, Daedeok-Myeon, Anseong-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Republic of Korea

Sanjay Saikia

These authors made equal contributions and should be considered co-first authors.

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Guanggan Hu

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Joyce Wang

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carlen Ka-Yin Fung

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cletus D'Souza

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rick White

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

James W. Kronstad

kronstad@interchange.ubc.ca

Affiliation The Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WHJ SS JWK. Performed the experiments: WHJ SS GH JW CKYF. Analyzed the data: WHJ SS GH JW CD RW JWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD RW. Wrote the paper: WHJ SS JWK.