About the Authors

Nolwenn M. Dheilly

nolwenn.dheilly@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Paul W. Ewald

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Paul J. Brindley

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America

Raina N. Fichorova

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Frédéric Thomas

Affiliation CREEC (UMR CNRS/IRD/UM1/UM2 5290), BP, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.