About the Authors

David A. Baltrus

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Baltrus, Marc T. Nishimura

Current address: School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Marc T. Nishimura

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Baltrus, Marc T. Nishimura

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Artur Romanchuk

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeff H. Chang

Current address: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Shahid Mukhtar

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Karen Cherkis

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeff Roach

Affiliation Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sarah R. Grant

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Corbin D. Jones

cdjones@email.unc.edu (CDJ, computational queries); dangl@email.unc.edu (JLD, biological queries)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffery L. Dangl

cdjones@email.unc.edu (CDJ, computational queries); dangl@email.unc.edu (JLD, biological queries)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAB MTN AR JHC CDJ JLD. Performed the experiments: DAB MTN AR JHC. Analyzed the data: DAB MTN AR JHC CDJ JLD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSM KC SG JR. Wrote the paper: DAB MTN CDJ AR JLD.