About the Authors

Lanelle R. Connolly

Contributed equally to this work with: Lanelle R. Connolly, Kristina M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kristina M. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Lanelle R. Connolly, Kristina M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Michael Freitag

freitagm@cgrb.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRC KMS MF. Performed the experiments: LRC. Analyzed the data: KMS LRC MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LRC KMS. Wrote the paper: KMS LRC MF.