About the Authors

Alexander R. Truchon

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

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

Erik R. Zinser

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Steven W. Wilhelm

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

wilhelm@utk.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.