About the Authors

Ryan D. Bickel

rbickel2@unl.edu

Affiliations School of Biological Science, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Artyom Kopp

Affiliation Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDB AK SVN. Performed the experiments: RDB. Analyzed the data: RDB AK SVN. Wrote the paper: RDB AK SVN.