About the Authors

Eugene V. Nadezhdin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Margaret S. Brody

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Chester W. Price

cwprice@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EVN CWP. Performed the experiments: EVN MSB. Analyzed the data: EVN MSB CWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EVN MSB. Wrote the paper: EVN MSB CWP.