About the Authors

Haichun Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Haichun Gao, Donna Pattison, Tingfen Yan, Dawn M. Klingeman

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Donna Pattison

Contributed equally to this work with: Haichun Gao, Donna Pattison, Tingfen Yan, Dawn M. Klingeman

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tingfen Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Haichun Gao, Donna Pattison, Tingfen Yan, Dawn M. Klingeman

Affiliation Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Dawn M. Klingeman

Contributed equally to this work with: Haichun Gao, Donna Pattison, Tingfen Yan, Dawn M. Klingeman

Affiliation Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Xiaohu Wang

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph Petrosino

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lisa Hemphill

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiufeng Wan

Affiliation Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Adam B. Leaphart

Affiliation Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

George M. Weinstock

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Palzkill

timothyp@bcm.tmc.edu (TP); jzhou@ou.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jizhong Zhou

timothyp@bcm.tmc.edu (TP); jzhou@ou.edu (JZ)

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG TP JZ. Performed the experiments: HG DP TY DK XW JFP LH XW AL. Analyzed the data: HG JFP LH GMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG GMW TP JZ. Wrote the paper: HG TP JZ.