Bacteria producing the bioplastic polyhydroxybutyrate kill the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

• Gabrielle E. Giese ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabrielle E. Giese, Daniel M. Richards

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel M. Richards ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabrielle E. Giese, Daniel M. Richards

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jeremy T. Florman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alyxandra N. Starbard,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ann A. Xu,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Durning,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mark J. Alkema,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Albertha J. M. Walhout

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marian.walhout@umassmed.edu

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5587-3608

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