About the Authors

Wasila M. Dahdul

wasila.dahdul@usd.edu (WMD); pmabee@usd.edu (PMM)

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James P. Balhoff

Affiliations National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffrey Engeman

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Terry Grande

Affiliation Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Eric J. Hilton

Affiliation Department of Fisheries Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States of America

Cartik Kothari

Affiliations National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hilmar Lapp

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

John G. Lundberg

Affiliation Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter E. Midford

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Todd J. Vision

Affiliations National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Monte Westerfield

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Paula M. Mabee

wasila.dahdul@usd.edu (WMD); pmabee@usd.edu (PMM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: WMD JPB JE TG EJH CK HL JGL PEM TJV MW PMM. Curated phenotypic data: WMD JE TG EJH JGL PMM. Developed curation standards: WMD JE JGL PMM. Developed curation workflow: WMD JPB HL JGL PEM TJV MW PMM. Maintained and updated ontologies: WMD PEM. Developed the figures: WMD JPB PEM. Provided quantitative data descriptions: JPB CK.