About the Authors

Reed M. Johnson

johnson.5005@osu.edu

Current address: Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

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

Wenfu Mao

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

Henry S. Pollock

Current address: Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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

Guodong Niu

Current address: The Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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

Mary A. Schuler

Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

May R. Berenbaum

Affiliation Department of Entomology, 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: RMJ WM HSP GN MAS MRB. Performed the experiments: RMJ WM HSP GN. Analyzed the data: RMJ WM HSP GN. Wrote the paper: RMJ HSP MRB.