About the Authors

Larry G. Cabral

Cabral@csus.edu (LC); s4020793@student.uq.edu.au (BF)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Brad R. Foley

Cabral@csus.edu (LC); s4020793@student.uq.edu.au (BF)

Affiliation Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Affiliations Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BF LC. Performed the experiments: LC. Analyzed the data: SN BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN. Wrote the paper: SN BF.