Better explicating the strengths and shortcomings of these models will help refine projections and improve transparency in the years ahead.
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Edited by E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and approved October 15, 2013 (received for review April 6, 2013)
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- Published in issue December 3, 2013.
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- Kevin R. Theisa,b,1,
- Arvind Venkataramana,
- Jacquelyn A. Dycusa,
- Keith D. Koontera,
- Emily N. Schmitt-Matzena,
- Aaron P. Wagnerb,
- Kay E. Holekampb,c,2, and
- Thomas M. Schmidta,b,2
- Departments of aMicrobiology and Molecular Genetics and
- cZoology and
- bBEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
Edited by E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and approved October 15, 2013 (received for review April 6, 2013)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: theiskev{at}msu.edu.
↵2K.E.H. and T.M.S. contributed equally to this work.
Author contributions: K.R.T., A.V., K.E.H., and T.M.S. designed research; K.R.T., A.V., J.A.D., K.D.K., E.N.S.-M., and A.P.W. performed research; K.R.T., A.V., and J.A.D. analyzed data; and K.R.T., A.V., J.A.D., A.P.W., K.E.H., and T.M.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. KC705471–KC706325).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1306477110/-/DCSupplemental.
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