About the Authors

Blair Therit

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jackie K. Cheung

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Julian I. Rood

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Stephen B. Melville

melville@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT JKC JIR SBM. Performed the experiments: BT JKC SBM. Analyzed the data: BT JKC JIR SBM. Wrote the paper: BT JKC JIR SBM.