About the Authors

Ti-Cheng Chang

Affiliations Department of Dairy and Animal Science, The Center for Reproductive Biology and Health, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Integrative Biosciences Program, Bioinformatics and Genomics Option, The Huck Institute of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yang Yang

Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Dairy and Animal Science, The Center for Reproductive Biology and Health, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hiroshi Yasue

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Arvind K. Bharti

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Ernest F. Retzel

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Wan-Sheng Liu

wul12@psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Dairy and Animal Science, The Center for Reproductive Biology and Health, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Integrative Biosciences Program, Bioinformatics and Genomics Option, The Huck Institute of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCC YY WSL. Performed the experiments: TCC YY HY EFR. Analyzed the data: TCC YY WSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCC YY HY AKB EFR WSL. Wrote the paper: TCC YY WSL.