About the Authors

Thomas Sharpton

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

thomas.sharpton@oregonstate.edu

Affiliations Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Edward W. Davis II

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Life Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon United States of America

Alexandra Alexiev

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.