About the Authors

J. Dylan Shropshire

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shropxp@gmail.com (JDS); s.bordenstein@vanderbilt.edu (SRB)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Mahip Kalra

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Seth R. Bordenstein

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shropxp@gmail.com (JDS); s.bordenstein@vanderbilt.edu (SRB)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

J.D.S. and S.R.B. are listed as inventors on a provisional patent relevant to this work. S.R.B. is a coinventor on two other pending patents related to controlling arthropods.