About the Authors
- Matthew B Sullivan
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Affiliation Joint Program in Biological Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Maureen L Coleman
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Peter Weigele
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Forest Rohwer
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Sallie W Chisholm
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chisholm@mit.edu
Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
MBS grew, purified, and extracted DNA from the phages. Non-authors (see Acknowledgments) prepared clone libraries, sequenced the inserts, and assembled the genomes. MBS, MLC, and FR did the majority of the genome annotation, while PW evaluated tail-fiber-related genes and provided electron micrographs of the particles. MBS and SWC wrote the majority of the paper with significant contributions from all authors, as well as non-authors (detailed in the Acknowledgments).
