About the Authors

Gerda Saxer

gsaxer@rice.edu

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paul Havlak

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biomedical and Environmental Genomics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sara A. Fox

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael A. Quance

Affiliation Center for Biomedical and Environmental Genomics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sharu Gupta

Affiliation Center for Biomedical and Environmental Genomics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuriy Fofanov

Affiliation Center for Biomedical and Environmental Genomics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joan E. Strassmann

Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David C. Queller

Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS PH YF JES DCQ. Performed the experiments: SAF GS. Analyzed the data: GS PH SG YF MAQ JES DCQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS PH YF JES DCQ. Wrote the paper: GS MAQ JES DCQ.