About the Authors

Elhan S. Ersoz

dc58@cornell.edu (DC); elhan.ersoz@syngenta.com (ESE)

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mark H. Wright

Affiliation Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jasmyn L. Pangilinan

Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Moira J. Sheehan

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Christian Tobias

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Michael D. Casler

Affiliation USDA-ARS, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, USDA-ARS, Robert Holley Center, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Denise E. Costich

dc58@cornell.edu (DC); elhan.ersoz@syngenta.com (ESE)

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, USDA-ARS, Robert Holley Center, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed and implemented the software used for the analysis: MHW. Helped interpret the results and commented on the manuscript: CT MJS. Conceived and designed the experiments: DEC ESB MDC. Performed the experiments: JLP MJS MHW. Analyzed the data: ESE JLP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDC ESB DEC. Wrote the paper: ESB.