Acknowledgments
We appreciate the collaboration and the support from Institut de
Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and the research Unit ESV-GAB at
the Centre International de Rrecherches médicales de Franceville (CIRMF)
in Gabon, and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kenya during
the fieldwork. We are grateful to all the field assistants and
scientists in the field, especially Nil Rahola and Marc F. Ngangue in La
Lopé and Rotich Gilbert in Rabai. In addition, we thank Andrew Goodman
and his lab for providing primers for bacterial amplicon sequencing and
helpful guidance in library preparation. We also thank Nanxi Lu for the
instructions on bioinformatic analysis of the sequencing results. We
received a lot of technical support and training from the Yale Center
for Genome Analysis (YCGA) on Illumina sequencing, from the West Campus
Analytic Core on GC-MS, and from the Yale West Campus Imaging Core on
fluorescent microscopes, and we are grateful for all the support. The
design of the laboratory experiments benefited greatly from the helpful
discussions with Luciano Cosme, Ryan Joseph, and Lisa Baik. We
appreciate all the useful discussions, suggestions, and feedback from
Gisella Caccone, Tom Chiodo, Benjamin Evans, Stephen Gaughran, Andrea
Gloria-Soria, Evelyn Jensen, Panagiota Kotsakiozi, Joshua Miller, Evlyn
Pless, Maud Quinzin, Norah Saarman, Samuel Snow, and John Soghigian. We
also want to thank members of the McBride lab at Princeton University
for valuable feedback and discussions, and we are grateful for the
advice and guidance from Stephen Stearns, John Carlson, and Alvaro
Sanchez. Lastly, we thank the advice and comments from the editor and
the reviewers that improved this manuscript.
This work was supported by NIH RO1 AI101112 to JRP and YIBS Small Grants
Program, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards to SX.