About the Authors

B. Jesse Shapiro

Affiliation Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J Alm

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ejalm@mit.edu

Affiliations Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , The Virtual institute of Microbial Stress and Survival, Berkeley, California, United States of America , The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BJS and EJA conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. BJS performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.