Evolution-guided mutagenesis of the cytoplasmic incompatibility proteins: Identifying CifA’s complex functional repertoire and new essential regions in CifB

• J. Dylan Shropshire ,

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

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4221-2178

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• 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0136-8192

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• Seth R. Bordenstein

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

  * E-mail: 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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-0954

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