About the Authors

Mathieu Picardeau

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathieu Picardeau, Dieter M. Bulach

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Dieter M. Bulach

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathieu Picardeau, Dieter M. Bulach

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Bacterial Pathogenesis Program, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Christiane Bouchier

Affiliation Plate-forme Génomique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Richard L. Zuerner

Affiliation Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center (NADC), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Nora Zidane

Affiliation Plate-forme Génomique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Peter J. Wilson

Affiliation Australian Genome Research Facility, Gehrmann Laboratories, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Sophie Creno

Affiliation Plate-forme Génomique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Elizabeth S. Kuczek

Affiliation Australian Genome Research Facility, Gehrmann Laboratories, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Simona Bommezzadri

Affiliation Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

John C. Davis

Affiliation Australian Genome Research Facility, Gehrmann Laboratories, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Annette McGrath

Affiliation Australian Genome Research Facility, Gehrmann Laboratories, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Matthew J. Johnson

Affiliation Australian Genome Research Facility, Gehrmann Laboratories, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Caroline Boursaux-Eude

Affiliation Plate-forme Intégration et Analyse génomique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Zoé Rouy

Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, Evry, France

Ross L. Coppel

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Julian I. Rood

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Bacterial Pathogenesis Program, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Aurélie Lajus

Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, Evry, France

John K. Davies

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Bacterial Pathogenesis Program, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Claudine Médigue

Affiliations Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Laboratoire de Génomique Comparative, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, Evry, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8030, Génomique Métabolique, Evry, France

Ben Adler

*E-mail: Ben.Adler@med.monash.edu.au

Affiliations Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Bacterial Pathogenesis Program, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BA CB MP RZ DB PW EK AM CB-E. Performed the experiments: CM ZR NZ SC SB JD MJ AL. Analyzed the data: RC BA JR JD MP RZ DB AM TS. Wrote the paper: BA JR MP RZ DB.