About the Authors

Diana Chinchilla

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana Chinchilla, Cecilia Nieves

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Referencia de Bacteriología, Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (INCIENSA), La Unión, Cartago, Costa Rica

Cecilia Nieves

Contributed equally to this work with: Diana Chinchilla, Cecilia Nieves

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Laval, Québec, Canada

Ricardo Gutiérrez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Referencia de Bacteriología, Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (INCIENSA), La Unión, Cartago, Costa Rica

Vallier Sordoillet

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, Paris, France

Frédéric J. Veyrier

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bacterial Symbionts Evolution, Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Laval, Québec, Canada

Mathieu Picardeau

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mathieu.picardeau@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Biology of Spirochetes Unit, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.