About the Authors

Michael M. Maiden

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Beaumont Children’s Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, The BEACON Center for The Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Christopher M. Waters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

watersc3@msu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, The BEACON Center for The Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.