About the Authors

Nathan A. Baird

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan A. Baird, Paul D. Etter

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Paul D. Etter

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan A. Baird, Paul D. Etter

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Tressa S. Atwood

Affiliation Floragenex, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Mark C. Currey

Affiliation The Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Anthony L. Shiver

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Zachary A. Lewis

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Eric U. Selker

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

William A. Cresko

Affiliation The Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Eric A. Johnson

eric-johnson@molbio.uoregon.edu

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

EAJ has patents filed on the RAD marker, and partial interest in a company commercializing the system. TSA is a paid employee of that company.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NAB PDE TSA ZAL ES WC EAJ. Performed the experiments: NAB PDE MCC ALS. Analyzed the data: NAB PDE ZAL EAJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC ALS ES WC EAJ. Wrote the paper: NAB PDE TSA ZAL ES WC EAJ.