About the Authors

Marta Maria Gaglia

Marta.Gaglia@tufts.edu (MMG); glaunsinger@berkeley.edu (BAG)

Affiliations Program in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chris H. Rycroft

Affiliations School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Britt A. Glaunsinger

Marta.Gaglia@tufts.edu (MMG); glaunsinger@berkeley.edu (BAG)

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMG. Performed the experiments: MMG. Analyzed the data: MMG CHR BAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHR. Wrote the paper: MMG BAG.