About the Authors

Landry E. Nfonsam

Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Carlos Cano

Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Joann Mudge

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Faye D. Schilkey

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Jennifer Curtiss

curtij01@nmsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC FDS. Performed the experiments: LEN CC JM. Analyzed the data: LEN CC JM JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FDS JC. Wrote the paper: LEN JM JC.