About the Authors
- Lauren M. Childs
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lauren M. Childs, Whitney E. England
Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Whitney E. England
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lauren M. Childs, Whitney E. England
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Mark J. Young
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Affiliation Thermal Biology Institute and Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Montana, United States of America
- Joshua S. Weitz
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* E-mail: jsweitz@gatech.edu (JSW); rwhitaker@life.illinois.edu (RJW)
Affiliation School of Biology and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Rachel J. Whitaker
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* E-mail: jsweitz@gatech.edu (JSW); rwhitaker@life.illinois.edu (RJW)
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
Competing Interests
We confirm that co-author Rachel Whitaker is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LMC WEE MJY JSW RJW. Performed the experiments: LMC WEE. Analyzed the data: LMC WEE RJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMC WEE JSW RJW. Wrote the paper: LMC WEE JSW RJW.