About the Authors

Andrew D. Farr

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

afarr@evolbio.mpg.de

Affiliations Department of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Christina Vasileiou

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany

Peter A. Lind

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Paul B. Rainey

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbial Population Biology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Laboratoire Biophysique et Évolution, CBI, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.