About the Authors

Eduardo P. C Rocha

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erocha@closun.snv.jussieu.fr

Affiliations Unité Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France , Atelier de Bioinformatique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Emmanuel Cornet

Affiliation Atelier de Bioinformatique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Bénédicte Michel

Affiliation Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EPCR conceived and designed the experiments. EPCR and EC performed the experiments. EPCR, EC, and BM analyzed the data. EPCR and BM wrote the paper.