About the Authors

Bryant F. McAllister

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bryant-mcallister@uiowa.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Amy L. Evans

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM. Performed the experiments: AE. Analyzed the data: BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM. Wrote the paper: BM.