About the Authors

Marc T. J. Johnson

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc T. J. Johnson, Eric J. Carpenter, Zhijian Tian

marc.johnson@utoronto.ca (MJ); gane@ualberta.ca (GKSW)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Eric J. Carpenter

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc T. J. Johnson, Eric J. Carpenter, Zhijian Tian

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Zhijian Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc T. J. Johnson, Eric J. Carpenter, Zhijian Tian

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, China

Richard Bruskiewich

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Jason N. Burris

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Charlotte T. Carrigan

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Mark W. Chase

Affiliation Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Neil D. Clarke

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sarah Covshoff

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Claude W. dePamphilis

Affiliation Department of Biology and Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Patrick P. Edger

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Falicia Goh

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sean Graham

Affiliation Department of Botany and UBC Botanical Garden, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Stephan Greiner

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

Julian M. Hibberd

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ingrid Jordon-Thaden

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Toni M. Kutchan

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

James Leebens-Mack

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Melkonian

Affiliation Department of Botany, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Nicholas Miles

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Henrietta Myburg

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jordan Patterson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

J. Chris Pires

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Paula Ralph

Affiliation Department of Biology and Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Megan Rolf

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rowan F. Sage

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Douglas Soltis

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Pamela Soltis

Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dennis Stevenson

Affiliation New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, United States of America

C. Neal Stewart Jr

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Barbara Surek

Affiliation Department of Botany, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Christina J. M. Thomsen

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Juan Carlos Villarreal

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiaolei Wu

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, China

Yong Zhang

Affiliation BGI-Shenzhen, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, China

Michael K. Deyholos

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gane Ka-Shu Wong

marc.johnson@utoronto.ca (MJ); gane@ualberta.ca (GKSW)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, BGI-Shenzhen, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, China, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTJJ EJC MKD GKSW D. Soltis S. Graham JLM SC. Performed the experiments: MTJJ EJC ZT RB JNB CTC MWC NDC SC CWD PPE FG S. Greiner S. Graham JMH IJT TMK JLM MM NM HM JP JCP PR MR RFS D. Stevenson PS D. Soltis CNS BS CJMT JCV XW YZ MKD GKSW. Analyzed the data: MTJJ EJC JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTJJ EJC ZT RB JNB CTC MWC NDC SC CWD SWD PPE FG S. Graham S. Greiner JMH IJT TMK JLM MM NM HM JP JCP PR MR RFS D. Stevenson PS D. Soltis CNS BS CJMT JCV XW YZ MKD GKSW. Wrote the paper: MTJJ EJC ZT XW YZ MKD GKSW.