About the Authors

Giovanna Carpi

guc12@psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Francesca Cagnacci

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

Nicola E. Wittekindt

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Fangqing Zhao

Current address: Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ji Qi

Current address: Institute of Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lynn P. Tomsho

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daniela I. Drautz

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Annapaola Rizzoli

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

Stephan C. Schuster

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCS GC. Performed the experiments: GC NEW LPT DID. Analyzed the data: GC FC FZ JQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCS AR. Wrote the paper: GC FC. Commented on the manuscript: SCS NEW.