About the Authors

Morgan N Price

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: morgannprice@yahoo.com

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Paramvir S Dehal

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Adam P Arkin

Affiliations Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MNP conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. PSD and APA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. All authors wrote the paper.