About the Authors
- Dongying Wu
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Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Martin Wu
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Affiliations Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Aaron Halpern
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Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Douglas B. Rusch
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Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Shibu Yooseph
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Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Marvin Frazier
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Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- J. Craig Venter
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Affiliations The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jonathan A. Eisen
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* E-mail: jaeisen@ucdavis.edu
Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DW JAE. Performed the experiments: JAE DW MW AH DBR SY MF JCV. Analyzed the data: JAE DW MW AH DBR SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCV. Wrote the paper: JAE DW. Ideas and discussion: MF JCV. Built microbial genome database: MW. Analyzed sequences linked to RecA and RpoB clusters: DBR. Analysis of distributions of sequences in GOS data: AH.