About the Authors

Rachel Simister

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Michael W. Taylor

Affiliation Centre for Microbial Innovation, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Peter Tsai

Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Nicole Webster

n.webster@aims.gov.au

Affiliation Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville Mail Centre, Qld 4810, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS NW MWT. Performed the experiments: RS NW. Analyzed the data: RS NW MWT PT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NW MWT PT. Wrote the paper: RS NW MWT.