The first seven BGstrains listed in Table 1 were streaked for single colonies on BHI plates and incubated at 33uC overnight, followed by subculturing a second time under the same conditions. Subsequently, cell suspensions were prepared according to Biolog specifications, with OD readings ranging between 0.35-0.45 at 600 nm. Biolog phenotypic microarray plates PM1 through PM20, were inoculated according to the manufacturer's specifications, and incubated at 37uC for 72 hours. Readings were taken every 15 minutes, and data processed by OmniLog Phenotype Microarray File Management/Kinetic Plot and Parametric modules. Two biological replicates of the experiment were conducted for each strain. PM1-10 contain single wells for each growth condition whereas PM11-20 contain quadruplicate wells for each condition.