About the Authors

Abigail Kimball

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Lisa Funkhouser-Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M School of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Wanyi Huang

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rui Xu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Current address: State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William H. Witola

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Veterinary Medicine, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

L. David Sibley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sibley@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.