About the Authors

Rachael Hageman Blair

Affiliation State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Daniel J. Kliebenstein

Affiliation University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Gary A. Churchill

gary.churchill@jax.org

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHB DJK GAC. Performed the experiments: RHB DJK. Analyzed the data: RHB. Wrote the paper: RHB DJK GAC.