About the Authors

Anne van der Meij

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hannah Tyrrell

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dustin J. Sokolowski

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Evan M. F. Shepherdson

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Marie A. Elliot

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Justin R. Nodwell

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

justin.nodwell@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The authors disclose that a patent application related to chitobiose production by the dasBC deletion mutant has been planned.