About the Authors
- Howard Ochman
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* E-mail: howard.ochman@yale.edu
Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Michael Worobey
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Chih-Horng Kuo
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Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Jean-Bosco N. Ndjango
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Affiliation Faculties of Sciences, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Martine Peeters
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Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France
- Beatrice H. Hahn
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama United States of America
- Philip Hugenholtz
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Current address: Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Affiliation Microbial Ecology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: HO MW PH. Performed the experiments: HO PH. Analyzed the data: HO MW CHK PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW CHK JBNN MP BHH. Wrote the paper: HO MW CHK BHH PH.