About the Authors

Shabarinath Srikumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Shabarinath Srikumar, Carsten Kröger

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Carsten Kröger

Contributed equally to this work with: Shabarinath Srikumar, Carsten Kröger

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Magali Hébrard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Aoife Colgan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Siân V. Owen

Affiliation Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Sathesh K. Sivasankaran

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Andrew D. S. Cameron

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Karsten Hokamp

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Jay C. D. Hinton

jay.hinton@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS CK MH JCDH. Performed the experiments: SS CK AC MH. Analyzed the data: SS CK ADSC SVO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVO SKS KH. Wrote the paper: SS CK ADSC JCDH.