00b_Authors.md

Author Information

Author Order

Rick E Masonbrink 1*, David Alt,2 Darrell O. Bayles, 2 Paola Boggiatto, 2 William Edwards 3, Fred Tatum, 4 Jeffrey Williams, 2 Jenny Wilson-Welder, 2 Aleksey Zimin5, Andrew Severin 1, Steven Olsen2

Author Affiliations, addresses and email addresses

Rick E Masonbrink Genome Informatics Facility, Department of Biotech, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America 50011 remkv6@iastate.edu

David P Alt Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America 50010 david.alt@usda.gov

Darrell O Bayles Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, 50010 United States of America  darrell.bayles@usda.gov

Paola Boggiatto  Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, 50010 United States of America paola.boggiatto@usda.gov

William Edwards Wildlife Health Laboratory, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie WY, United States of America " hedwar@uwyo.edu

Fred Tatum Respiratory Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America  fred.tatum@usda.gov

Jeffrey Williams  Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America  mjwilli90@gmail.com

Jenny Wilson-Welder Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, 50010 United States of America 50010 jennifer.wilson-welder@usda.gov

Aleksey Zimin Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America aleksey.zimin@gmail.com

Andrew Severin Genome Informatics Facility, Department of Biotech, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America 50011 severin@iastate.edu

Steven Olsen Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, 50010United States of America  steven.olsen@ars.usda.gov

Contributions

Conceptualization –SO;  data curation – REM, AS; formal analysis – REM, AZ, AS, funding acquisition – SO; investigations – DA, DOB, PB, WE, FT, JWM, JWW; methodology – REM, AZ, AS; resources -- AS, software – REM, AZ, AS; supervision -- SO, validation – REM, AS; visualization -- REM, writing -- REM, AS;  review and editing – REM, DA,WE, AS, SO

PLOS genetics uses the standard CRediT Taxonomy listed below
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/s/authorship#loc-author-contributions

Conceptualization -- Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data Curation --	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
Formal Analysis --	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding Acquisition 	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation --	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology	-- Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Project Administration -- Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources --	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software --	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision --	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation --	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization --	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing –- Original Draft Preparation 	Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing –- Review & Editing 	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.