About the Authors

Eve W. L. Chow

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Shelly A. Clancey

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

R. Blake Billmyre

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Anna Floyd Averette

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joshua A. Granek

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke Center for the Genomics of Microbial Systems, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Piotr Mieczkowski

Affiliation High-Throughput Sequencing Facility, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria E. Cardenas

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph Heitman

heitm001@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JH MEC. Data curation: JAG. Formal analysis: EWLC JAG RBB. Funding acquisition: JH MEC. Investigation: EWLC SAC AFA MEC. Methodology: EWLC JH RBB JAG MEC. Project administration: JH MEC. Resources: JH MEC PM. Software: JAG. Supervision: JH MEC. Validation: SAC RBB AFA EWLC. Visualization: EWLC. Writing – original draft: EWLC. Writing – review & editing: RBB JH MEC SAC JAG.