About the Authors

Sergio Barberan-Soler

Affiliations Department of MCD Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Alan M. Zahler

zahler@biology.ucsc.edu

Affiliations Department of MCD Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBS AZ. Performed the experiments: SBS. Analyzed the data: SBS AZ. Wrote the paper: SBS AZ.