About the Authors

Agnieszka Mika

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology and the Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, United States of America

Will Van Treuren

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, United States of America

Antonio González

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, 29093, United States of America

Jonathan J. Herrera

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology and the Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, United States of America

Rob Knight

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, 29093, United States of America, Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, 29093, United States of America

Monika Fleshner

fleshner@colorado.edu

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology and the Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM MF. Performed the experiments: AM JJH. Analyzed the data: AM WVT AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF WVT AG RK. Wrote the paper: AM MF.