About the Authors

Charles K. Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles K. Lee, Craig W. Herbold

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Craig W. Herbold

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles K. Lee, Craig W. Herbold

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Shawn W. Polson

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

K. Eric Wommack

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware, United States of America

Shannon J. Williamson

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ian R. McDonald

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

S. Craig Cary

caryc@waikato.ac.nz

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKL SCC. Performed the experiments: CKL. Analyzed the data: CKL CWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CKL SWP KEW SJW IRM SCC. Wrote the paper: CKL CWH SCC.