About the Authors

Patrick Olbermann

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Olbermann, Christine Josenhans, Bodo Linz

Current address: Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Christine Josenhans

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Olbermann, Christine Josenhans, Bodo Linz

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Yoshan Moodley

Current address: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Markus Uhr

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Christiana Stamer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Marc Vauterin

Affiliation Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

Sebastian Suerbaum

m.achtman@ucc.ie; suerbaum.sebastian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Mark Achtman

m.achtman@ucc.ie; suerbaum.sebastian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Bodo Linz

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Olbermann, Christine Josenhans, Bodo Linz

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

MV is an employee of Applied Maths nv and therefore has competing interest for the Kodon software.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PO CJ SS MA BL. Performed the experiments: PO CJ CS BL. Analyzed the data: PO CJ YM MU MA BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV SS. Wrote the paper: CJ SS MA BL.