About the Authors

Yvonne Vallès

Affiliations Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Kenneth M. Halanych

Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Jeffrey L. Boore

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: JLBoore@GenomeProjectSolutions.com

Affiliations Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Genome Project Solution, Hercules, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YV JB. Performed the experiments: YV. Analyzed the data: YV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH JB. Wrote the paper: KH YV JB.