About the Authors
- Marcella D. Cervantes
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Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Eileen P. Hamilton
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Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Jie Xiong
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Michael J. Lawson
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Affiliation Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Dongxia Yuan
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Michalis Hadjithomas
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Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Wei Miao
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* E-mail: miaowei@ihb.ac.cn (WM); orias@lifesci.ucsb.edu (EO)
Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Eduardo Orias
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* E-mail: miaowei@ihb.ac.cn (WM); orias@lifesci.ucsb.edu (EO)
Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Performed gene structure predictions: MH. Conceived and designed the experiments: MDC EPH JX WM EO. Performed the experiments: MDC EPH JX MJL DY. Analyzed the data: MDC EPH JX MJL DY WM EO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJL WM. Wrote the paper: MDC EPH JX WM EO.