About the Authors

Matthew I. Bellgard

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew I. Bellgard, Phatthanaphong Wanchanthuek

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Phatthanaphong Wanchanthuek

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew I. Bellgard, Phatthanaphong Wanchanthuek

Affiliations Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Faculty of Informatics, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand

Tom La

Affiliation Animal Research Institute, School Veterinary and Biomedical Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Karon Ryan

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Paula Moolhuijzen

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Zayed Albertyn

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Babak Shaban

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Yair Motro

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

David S. Dunn

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

David Schibeci

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Adam Hunter

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Roberto Barrero

Affiliation Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Nyree D. Phillips

Affiliation Animal Research Institute, School Veterinary and Biomedical Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

David J. Hampson

d.hampson@murdoch.edu.au

Affiliation Animal Research Institute, School Veterinary and Biomedical Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MIB TL DJH. Performed the experiments: PW KR PM YM DD. Analyzed the data: MIB PW TL KR PM ZA BS YM DD DS AH RB NP DJH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH. Wrote the paper: MIB PW TL DJH.