About the Authors
- Ahmed Moustafa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto
Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Adrian Reyes-Prieto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Debashish Bhattacharya
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* E-mail: debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu
Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, 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: DB AM AR. Analyzed the data: DB AM AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM. Wrote the paper: DB AM. Other: Performed the phylogenetic analyses: AR AM. Supervised the project: DB.