About the Authors

Sharon L. Doty

sldoty@uw.edu

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrew W. Sher

Current address: Department of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Neil D. Fleck

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mahsa Khorasani

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roger E. Bumgarner

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zareen Khan

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrew W. K. Ko

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Soo-Hyung Kim

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas H. DeLuca

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLD AWS. Performed the experiments: SLD AWS MK. Analyzed the data: SLD AWS NDF MK REB ZK SHK THD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLD AWS AWKK REB. Wrote the paper: SLD AWS.