Quantifying bacterial evolution in the wild: A birthday problem for Campylobacter lineages

• Jessica K. Calland,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-0812

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• Ben Pascoe,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6376-5121

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• Sion C. Bayliss,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5997-2002

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• Evangelos Mourkas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7411-4743

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• Elvire Berthenet,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations French National Reference Center for Campylobacters and Helicobacters, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, United Kingdom

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• Harry A. Thorpe,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5895-3232

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• Matthew D. Hitchings,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5527-4709

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• Edward J. Feil,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1446-6744

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• Jukka Corander,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Parasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7752-1942

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• Martin J. Blaser,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2447-2443

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• Daniel Falush ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: daniel.falush@ips.ac.cn (DF); s.k.sheppard@bath.ac.uk (SKS)

  Affiliation Centre for Microbes, Development and Health, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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• Samuel K. Sheppard

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daniel.falush@ips.ac.cn (DF); s.k.sheppard@bath.ac.uk (SKS)

  Affiliations The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-3203

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