About the Authors

Yasuko Ishida

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Ishida, Taras K. Oleksyk

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Taras K. Oleksyk

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuko Ishida, Taras K. Oleksyk

roca@illinois.edu (ALR); taras.oleksyk@upr.edu (TKO)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Nicholas J. Georgiadis

Affiliation Bole and Klingenstein Foundation, Cody, Wyoming, United States of America

Victor A. David

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Kai Zhao

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Robert M. Stephens

Affiliation Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Alfred L. Roca

roca@illinois.edu (ALR); taras.oleksyk@upr.edu (TKO)

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALR. Performed the experiments: VAD YI. Analyzed the data: YI TKO VAD KZ S-OK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJG TKO YI ALR RMS. Wrote the paper: ALR NJG YI TKO S-OK VAD.