About the Authors

Michael A. White

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Cécile Ané

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Colin N. Dewey

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bret R. Larget

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Bret A. Payseur

payseur@wisc.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAW CA BAP. Performed the experiments: MAW CND. Analyzed the data: MAW BAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA CND BRL. Wrote the paper: MAW BAP.