About the Authors

Erin K. Schwartz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Santa Clara University, Department of Biology, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Shih-Hsun Hung

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Damon Meyer

Roles Investigation

Current address: California Northstate University, College of Health Sciences, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Aurèle Piazza

Roles Investigation

Current address: CR CNRS UMR5239, Team Genome Mechanics,Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, allée d’Italie, FRANCE

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kevin Yan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Becky Xu Hua Fu

Roles Investigation

Current address: Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Wolf-Dietrich Heyer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

wdheyer@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.