About the Authors

Helena L. Pound

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Steven W. Wilhelm

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

wilhelm@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.