About the Authors

David M. Wills

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Clinton J. Whipple

Affiliation Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Shohei Takuno

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Lisa E. Kursel

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Laura M. Shannon

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, The Genome Center, and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

John F. Doebley

jdoebley@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMW JFD. Performed the experiments: DMW CJW LEK LMS. Analyzed the data: DMW ST LMS JR-I CJW. Wrote the paper: DMW ST CJW LMS JR-I JFD.