About the Authors

Anthony L Keyburn

Affiliations CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

John D Boyce

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Paola Vaz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Trudi L Bannam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Mark E Ford

Affiliation CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Dane Parker

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Antonio Di Rubbo

Affiliation CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Julian I Rood

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Robert J Moore

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rob.moore@csiro.au

Affiliations CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ALK, JIR, and RJM conceived and designed the experiments. ALK, JDB, MEF, ADR, and RJM performed the experiments. ALK, JDB, TLB, DP, JIR, and RJM analyzed the data. ALK, JDB, PV, and RJM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. ALK, JIR, and RJM wrote the paper.