About the Authors

Rathi D. Thiagarajan

Contributed equally to this work with: Rathi D. Thiagarajan, Kylie M. Georgas, Bree A. Rumballe

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Kylie M. Georgas

Contributed equally to this work with: Rathi D. Thiagarajan, Kylie M. Georgas, Bree A. Rumballe

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Bree A. Rumballe

Contributed equally to this work with: Rathi D. Thiagarajan, Kylie M. Georgas, Bree A. Rumballe

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Emmanuelle Lesieur

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Han Sheng Chiu

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Darrin Taylor

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Dave T. P. Tang

Current address: Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Sean M. Grimmond

M.Little@imb.uq.edu.au (MHL); S.Grimmond@imb.uq.edu.au (SMG)

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Melissa H. Little

M.Little@imb.uq.edu.au (MHL); S.Grimmond@imb.uq.edu.au (SMG)

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDT KMG SMG MHL. Performed the experiments: RDT BAR EL HSC. Analyzed the data: RDT KMG MHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT DTPT. Wrote the paper: RDT KMG MHL. Edited the manuscript: RDT KMG SMG MHL. Designed the program for primer design: RDT DTPT. Designed the riboprobes: RDT DT DTPT.