About the Authors

Jolene Ramsey

ecoliwiki@gmail.com (JR); d-siegele@tamu.edu (DAS)

‡ Co-first authors.

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Brenley McIntosh

‡ Co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Daniel Renfro

‡ Co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Suzanne A. Aleksander

Current address: Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

‡ Co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Sandra LaBonte

‡ Co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Curtis Ross

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Adrienne E. Zweifel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Nathan Liles

Current address: Advanced Research Computing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Shabnam Farrar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jason J. Gill

Affiliations Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Ivan Erill

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah Ades

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tanya Z. Berardini

Affiliation The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Phoenix Bioinformatics, Newark, California, United States of America

Jennifer A. Bennett

Affiliation Department of Biology and Earth Science, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, United States of America

Siobhan Brady

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Robert Britton

Current address: Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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

Seth Carbon

Affiliation Division of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Steven M. Caruso

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Dave Clements

Affiliation Department of Biology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ritu Dalia

Current address: MaST Community Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Meredith Defelice

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erin L. Doyle

Affiliation Biology Department, Doane University, Crete, Nebraska, United States of America

Iddo Friedberg

Current address: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

Susan M. R. Gurney

Current address: School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lee Hughes

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Allison Johnson

Affiliation Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jason M. Kowalski

Current address: Department of Math and Natural Sciences, Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America

Donghui Li

Affiliation The Arabidopsis Information Resource, Phoenix Bioinformatics, Newark, California, United States of America

Ruth C. Lovering

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Tamara L. Mans

Current address: North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States of America

Fiona McCarthy

Current address: Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Basic Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

Sean D. Moore

Affiliation Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Rebecca Murphy

Affiliation Department of Biology, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Timothy D. Paustian

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sarah Perdue

Current address: Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Biological Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States of America

Celeste N. Peterson

Affiliation Biology Department, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Birgit M. Prüß

Affiliation Microbiological Sciences Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Margaret S. Saha

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America

Robert R. Sheehy

Affiliation Biology Department, Radford University, Radford, Virginia, United States of America

John T. Tansey

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, United States of America

Louise Temple

Affiliation School of Integrated Sciences, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America

Alexander William Thorman

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Saul Trevino

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Math, and Physics, Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Amy Cheng Vollmer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Virginia Walbot

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Joanne Willey

Affiliation Department of Science Education, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York, United States of America

Deborah A. Siegele

ecoliwiki@gmail.com (JR); d-siegele@tamu.edu (DAS)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

James C. Hu

† Deceased.

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.