About the Authors
- Mia D. Champion
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mia D. Champion, Qiandong Zeng
* E-mail: champion@broad.mit.edu
Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Qiandong Zeng
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mia D. Champion, Qiandong Zeng
Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Eli B. Nix
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Francis E. Nano
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Paul Keim
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Affiliations Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
- Chinnappa D. Kodira
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mark Borowsky
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Sarah Young
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Michael Koehrsen
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Reinhard Engels
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Matthew Pearson
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Clint Howarth
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lisa Larson
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jared White
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lucia Alvarado
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mats Forsman
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Affiliation Department of CBRN Defense and Security, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden
- Scott W. Bearden
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Anders Sjöstedt
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Richard Titball
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Affiliation University of Exeter, School of Biosciences, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Stephen L. Michell
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Affiliation University of Exeter, School of Biosciences, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Bruce Birren
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Affiliation Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- James Galagan
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Affiliations Microbial Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Boston University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MDC QZ FEN PK MB MF SWB AS RWT BB JEG. Performed the experiments: MDC QZ EBN SY. Analyzed the data: MDC QZ EBN FEN PK CDK SY BB JEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDC QZ EBN FEN PK MB MK RE MP CH LL JW LA MF SWB AS. Wrote the paper: MDC SLM. Contributed select draft sections of the paper in the early editing stages: QZ. Edited paper: FEN PK MF BB. Significant scientific advice and editing of the manuscript: RT. Editorial comments on the paper: SLM. Directed the Project and provided leadership: BB. Senior Author and provided editorial input: JG.