Chemical mutagenesis of Listeria monocytogenes for increased tolerance to benzalkonium chloride shows independent genetic underpinnings and off-target antibiotic resistance

• Tyler D. Bechtel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tyler D. Bechtel, Julia Hershelman

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

  Affiliation Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America

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• Julia Hershelman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tyler D. Bechtel, Julia Hershelman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America

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• Mrinalini Ghoshal,

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

  Affiliations Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America

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• Lynne McLandsborough,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America

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• John G. Gibbons

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jggibbons@umass.edu

  Affiliations Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1282-9345

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