About the Authors

Dominick A. Matos

Affiliations Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Benjamin J. Cole

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ian P. Whitney

Affiliations Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kirk J.-M. MacKinnon

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steve A. Kay

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Samuel P. Hazen

hazen@bio.umass.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAM BJC IPW SAK SPH. Performed the experiments: DAM BJC IPW KJMM. Analyzed the data: DAM BJC KJMM SPH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJC SAK. Wrote the paper: DAM BJC IPW SPH.