About the Authors
- Ariel D. Weinberger
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* E-mail: ariel_weinberger@meei.harvard.edu (ADW); jbanfield@berkeley.edu (JFB)
¶These authors made major contributions to the paper, the first in developing the theory, modeling the data, and writing the paper; the second in assembling and analyzing metagenomic data.
Affiliations Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Christine L. Sun
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¶These authors made major contributions to the paper, the first in developing the theory, modeling the data, and writing the paper; the second in assembling and analyzing metagenomic data.
Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Mateusz M. Pluciński
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Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Vincent J. Denef
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Brian C. Thomas
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Philippe Horvath
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Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Dange-Saint-Romain, France
- Rodolphe Barrangou
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Affiliation DuPont Nutrition and Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Michael S. Gilmore
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Affiliations Departments of Ophthalmology and Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Microbial Sciences Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Wayne M. Getz
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Jillian F. Banfield
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* E-mail: ariel_weinberger@meei.harvard.edu (ADW); jbanfield@berkeley.edu (JFB)
Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ADW WMG JFB. Performed the experiments: ADW CLS MMP. Analyzed the data: ADW CLS MMP VJD BCT JFB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADW PH RB MSG JFB. Wrote the paper: ADW MSG. Contributed to writing the manuscript: CLS MMP VJD BCT PH RB WMG JFB.