About the Authors

Mark P. Peterson

petersmp@indiana.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Kimberly A. Rosvall

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Jeong-Hyeon Choi

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Cancer Center, Department of Biostatistics, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Charles Ziegenfus

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America

Haixu Tang

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

John K. Colbourne

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ellen D. Ketterson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Neither Lily Endowment, Inc. nor IBM, Inc. had any influence on the design, conduct, interpretation, or reporting of this research. Further, there are no conflicts of interest related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products with either company, and this funding does not alter the authors' adherence to any of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPP KAR HT JKC EDK. Performed the experiments: MPP KAR JHC CZ. Analyzed the data: MPP KAR JHC HT JKC EDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPP KAR JHC HT JKC EDK. Wrote the paper: MPP KAR JHC CZ HT JKC EDK.