About the Authors

Keisha Findley

Contributed equally to this work with: Keisha Findley, Sheng Sun

Affiliations Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sheng Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Keisha Findley, Sheng Sun

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James A. Fraser

Affiliation School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Yen-Ping Hsueh

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Anna Floyd Averette

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Wenjun Li

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Fred S. Dietrich

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph Heitman

heitm001@duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF SS JH. Performed the experiments: KF SS JAF Y-PH AFA WL FSD. Analyzed the data: KF SS JH. Wrote the paper: KF SS JH.