About the Authors

Erin P. Price

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin P. Price, Heidie M. Hornstra

Affiliations Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Heidie M. Hornstra

Contributed equally to this work with: Erin P. Price, Heidie M. Hornstra

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Tamara L. Max

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Derek S. Sarovich

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Amy J. Vogler

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Julia L. Dale

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jennifer L. Ginther

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Benjamin Leadem

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Rebecca E. Colman

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Jeffrey T. Foster

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Apichai Tuanyok

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

David M. Wagner

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Sharon J. Peacock

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Talima Pearson

Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul Keim

paul.keim@nau.edu

Affiliations Northern Arizona University, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMW SJP TP PK. Performed the experiments: EPP HMH DL TLM JLD JLG BL JTF AT. Analyzed the data: EPP HMH DL DSS AJV BL REC SJP TP PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EPP HMH DL TLM DSS AJV JLD JLG REC JTF AT DMW SJP TP PK. Wrote the paper: EPP HMH DL SJP TP.