About the Authors

Jayna L. Ditty

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Christopher A. Kvaal

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America

Brad Goodner

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America

Sharyn K. Freyermuth

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Cheryl Bailey

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Robert A. Britton

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Stuart G. Gordon

Affiliation Department of Biology, Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina, United States of America

Sabine Heinhorst

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Kelynne Reed

Affiliation Biology Department, Austin College, Sherman, Texas, United States of America

Zhaohui Xu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America

Erin R. Sanders-Lorenz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Seth Axen

Affiliation Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Edwin Kim

Affiliation Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Mitrick Johns

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Kathleen Scott

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Cheryl A. Kerfeld

ckerfeld@lbl.gov

Affiliations Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.