About the Authors

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@illinois.edu

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Minglei Wang

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Derek Caetano-Anollés

Affiliation Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GCA MW DCA. Performed the experiments: GCA MW DCA. Analyzed the data: GCA MW DCA. Wrote the paper: GCA.