About the Authors

Ella Rotman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Luciana Amado

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Andrei Kuzminov

kuzminov@life.uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER LA AK. Performed the experiments: ER LA. Analyzed the data: ER LA AK. Wrote the paper: ER AK.