About the Authors

Dawn N. Birdsell

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Amy J. Vogler

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jordan Buchhagen

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Ashley Clare

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Emily Kaufman

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Amber Naumann

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Elizabeth Driebe

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul S. Keim

Paul.Keim@nau.edu

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DNB AJV DMW PSK. Performed the experiments: DNB JB AC EK AN ED. Analyzed the data: DNB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMW PSK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DNB AJV DMW PSK.