About the Authors

Yinqiu Cui

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America, College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

John Lindo

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Cris E. Hughes

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Jesse W. Johnson

Affiliation School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Alvaro G. Hernandez

Affiliation W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Brian M. Kemp

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and the School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jian Ma

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Ryan Cunningham

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Barbara Petzelt

Affiliation Metlakatla Treaty Office, Metlakatla, British Columbia, Canada

Joycellyn Mitchell

Affiliation Metlakatla Treaty Office, Metlakatla, British Columbia, Canada

David Archer

Affiliation Northwest Community College, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

Jerome S. Cybulski

Affiliation Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Ripan S. Malhi

malhi@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ilinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSM JSC DA BP J. Mitchell. Performed the experiments: YC JL CEH JJ AGH J. Ma RC BMK. Analyzed the data: YC JL RSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGH BMK J. Ma RSM. Wrote the paper: YC JL CEH JSC RSM BMK.