About the Authors

Nathan E. Stone

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Lindsay C. Sidak-Loftis

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Jason W. Sahl

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Adam J. Vazquez

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Kristin B. Wiggins

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States of America

John D. Gillece

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States of America

Nathan D. Hicks

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States of America

James M. Schupp

Affiliation Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States of America

Joseph D. Busch

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Paul Keim

Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Dave.Wagner@nau.edu

Affiliation Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NES JDB PK DMW. Data curation: NES LCS AJV NDH JMS. Formal analysis: NES JWS AJV JMS JDB. Funding acquisition: PK DMW. Investigation: NES LCS KBW JDG. Methodology: NES JWS JDB PK DMW. Project administration: JDB DMW. Resources: NES. Software: JWS NDH. Supervision: JDB PK DMW. Validation: NES LCS JWS. Visualization: NES JWS. Writing – original draft: NES JDB DMW. Writing – review & editing: NES LCS JWS AJV KBW JDG NDH JMS JDB PK DMW.