About the Authors
- Ai Xia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ai Xia, Maria V. Sharakhova
Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Maria V. Sharakhova
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ai Xia, Maria V. Sharakhova
Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Scotland C. Leman
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Zhijian Tu
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Jeffrey A. Bailey
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Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology and Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Christopher D. Smith
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Affiliations Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Drosophila Heterochromatin Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Igor V. Sharakhov
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* E-mail: igor@vt.edu
Affiliation Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IVS. Performed the experiments: AX MVS SCL ZT JAB CS IVS. Analyzed the data: AX MVS SCL CS IVS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCL ZT JAB. Wrote the paper: SCL IVS.