About the Authors

Margit Foss

Contributed equally to this work with: Margit Foss, Buck W. L. Wilcox

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Buck W. L. Wilcox

Contributed equally to this work with: Margit Foss, Buck W. L. Wilcox

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

G. Bradley Alsop

Current address: Minnesota State College – Southeast Technical, Red Wing, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Dahong Zhang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zhangd@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ. Performed the experiments: BW GA DZ. Analyzed the data: DZ MF BW. Wrote the paper: MF. Critical review of manuscript: DZ BW.