Genome-scale analysis of the genes that contribute to Burkholderia pseudomallei biofilm formation identifies a crucial exopolysaccharide biosynthesis gene cluster

• Grace I. Borlee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grace I. Borlee, Brooke A. Plumley, Kevin H. Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Brooke A. Plumley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grace I. Borlee, Brooke A. Plumley, Kevin H. Martin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Kevin H. Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Grace I. Borlee, Brooke A. Plumley, Kevin H. Martin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Nawarat Somprasong,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Mihnea R. Mangalea,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• M. Nurul Islam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Mary N. Burtnick,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• Paul J. Brett,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• Ivo Steinmetz,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology, and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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• David P. AuCoin,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada-Reno, School of Medicine Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• John T. Belisle,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Dean C. Crick,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Herbert P. Schweizer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Bradley R. Borlee

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

  * E-mail: Brad.Borlee@colostate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6321-2014

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