About the Authors

Nina A. Lehr

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Zheng Wang

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ning Li

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David A. Hewitt

Affiliations Department of Botany, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Francesc López-Giráldez

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Frances Trail

Affiliations Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Jeffrey.Townsend@Yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Microbiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPT FT. Performed the experiments: NL ZW. Analyzed the data: NAL ZW NL FL-G. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NL ZW DAH FT JPT.