Designer Sinorhizobium meliloti strains and multi-functional vectors enable direct inter-kingdom DNA transfer

• Stephanie L. Brumwell,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Michael R. MacLeod,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3227-7739

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• Tony Huang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Ryan R. Cochrane,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Rebecca S. Meaney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Designer Microbes Inc., London, ON, Canada

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• Maryam Zamani,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Ola Matysiakiewicz,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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• Kaitlyn N. Dan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Preetam Janakirama,

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

  Affiliation Designer Microbes Inc., London, ON, Canada

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• David R. Edgell,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

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• Trevor C. Charles,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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• Turlough M. Finan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Bogumil J. Karas

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bkaras@uwo.ca

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada, Designer Microbes Inc., London, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-4245

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